The 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming

From The Psychology of Computer Programming by Jerry Weinberg:
 
 1. Understand and…

Code As Design

In 1992 Jack Reeves published an essay What Is Software Design? in the C++ Journal.
 
 His basic premise is: “that final source code…

Zawinski’s Law from the Jargon File:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Possibly inspired by “The Law of Software Development and Envelopment” at MIT:

Michael Jackson on Optimization:

1. Don’t.
2. Don’t Yet (for experts only).

Donald Knuth in Structured Programming with Goto Statements:

Programmers waste enormous amounts of…

Engineering for the Long Game

Astrid Atkinson from Google speaking about Engineering for the Long Game at O’Reilly Velocity conference…

“The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got”

Andrei Alexandrescu writes in an article to InformIT: