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Actually she has a decent idea for a web business so the plan is to get cracking on that. Seems she inherited her dad’s entrepreneurial spirit!

My 11yo daughter has started to express interest in web app development. I run a web agency and my natural inclination would be to teach her a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and t…

If you're working remotely, the pound tanking is a good thing, isn't it?

We have just closed on a new house which is a fixer upper that we plan to renovate from top to bottom. Since I am a programmer and technologist, my wife asked me to make suggestion…

Author here. I linked to your post and there are comments on the blog (which you took advantage of). No need to be pissed off. I still disagree with this particular point (and I'm …

Thanks for the detailed feedback. I agree with a lot of your points, but I don't think adding QA people addresses the same need as peer code review. QA can find bugs in the current…

I recently published some advice about doing peer code reviews based on my experience managing a development team for the past few years. One of my recommendations is to spend roug…

Fair point about setup costs, but the marginal cost (which is what really counts over the long term) is negligeable in both cases. Things are improving as I say in the piece, but i…