Help yourself by helping others — Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. — Helen Keller Software development is a team game to create software but developers compete with others for positions and promotions. What approach should you take, hoard information, and go it alone? Will helping others hurt yourself? Should…

Most people get interested in a technology when everyone else is — “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” — Charles MacKay, Technology doesn’t have bubbles and crashes, instead it technology becomes over-hyped. It becomes overused and used where…

You can’t avoid problems you don’t see coming — It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out When you are driving, there is a blind spot where you can’t see using your back and side mirrors. To solve this problem, when pulling across lanes on a motorway, drivers need to turn their heads and look in…

Is There A Better Way? — “Any year that you don’t destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year.” — Charlie Munger I think about this quote above to inspire myself to be more open-minded. It is surprising how difficult it is to change anyone’s mind, particularly our own. …

Code creates bugs and bugs are fixed by code — “Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.” -Joseph Heller Developers get themselves into a catch-22. They work hard on the project to get promoted but to get promoted they need new skills which they can’t learn because they are working…

Good enough is good enough and perfect wastes time — “No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It’s unlikely that you’ll be the first.” Andy Hunt No developer has written perfect code or software, but many have wasted time trying to improve some code that did its job well enough. Don’t…

Spidey sense comes from experience, knowledge and skill — “Usually, the better someone does their job, the easier it looks. You rarely realize how hard it is until you try it yourself.” James Clear When the BA/consultants, customer and mangers think a feature is straightforward and easy, the senior developers' spidey sense tingle. They can sense potential danger, whilst…

The hidden strength in developer weakness — “When the King walks by, the servants bow deeply and fart silently.” Ethiopian proverb. Developers seem powerless, dancing to the join of leadership and the project plan. …