2020-08-18
118 reads
software development
2020-06-30
194 reads
Building Better Software for Everyone
Building better software might be a bit more work when we consider ensuring everyone can use our work.
2020-05-25
102 reads
Writing Before Reading
We often learn to write code before we really learn to read it, which seems like a problem to Steve.
2026-05-13 (first published: 2020-05-21)
203 reads
2020-05-19
94 reads
Keeping Unique Aliases
Steve prefers having standards, and today notes that aliases should be included in your standards document.
2020-04-28
146 reads
Teams That Ship
Running software teams isn't as easy as it may seem, and the way you manage a startup is different than a mature organization. Steve has a few comments on the process one angel investor implements.
2020-04-14
112 reads
Looking Back
Today Steve talks about retrospectives and how we learn and grow as software professionals.
2022-08-24 (first published: 2020-03-30)
222 reads
A Problem with Cowboy Coding
Cowboy coding can be a problem, and in a case Steve talks about, a temptation for someone to get more work.
2020-01-08
518 reads
The Art of Commenting
This week Steve talks about the ways in which comments are important in our code.
2020-01-04
294 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
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The Book of Redgate: Evidence
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When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
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Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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