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Let's be careful with the phrase "open office plan". Many articles lump cubicle farms together with partition-free spaces in the same category, but whenever they're treated as sepa…

Reminds me of my favorite bug story from my own career. It was in my first year or two out of college. We were using a commercial C++ library for making HTTP calls out to another s…

I also like your wording in terms of the codebase drifting from the team's understanding of the problem, which is a drift that is important to be continually mindful of. However, t…

I wrote this article, at carsongross's urging, as a follow-up to the discussion around his earlier article, "Rescuing REST from the API Winter".[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com…

Quoting from the court order: "Failure either to submit a Objection Form or letter to the Court by April 1, 2016 will be deemed a waiver of your right to object to the disclosure o…

(I wrote a fun little essay about Press & Dyson and Adami & Hintze for my scientific writing class last summer. The assignment was to write an essay of no more than 1000 words, int…

Altran is a major contributor to SPARK these days [1]. I've been a big believer in TDD for many years (and still am), but reading a lot of Dijkstra lately I started to feel guilty …

> But the magic of HTML is in the browser where you click around. Having a standard for form equivalents and links in a JSON API doesn't pack the same punch because there is little…

I haven't used intercooler.js myself, but I think it's a really beautiful example of REST's conception of "Code-On-Demand": It's not just downloading an RPC-style client into the b…

I was under the impression that iOS and Android both support HTML right out of the box. Do they no longer bundle Web browsers, or are you suggesting some other drawback that is cri…

Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article [1] doesn't distinguish between CQRS (command-query responsibility segregation) and CQS (command-query separation). They are entirely different…