I have re-written this article many times and have come close to posting it but have backed away because I felt my thoughts were either too antagonistic (which I strive to avoid) or were just too self serving (which I strive to avoid as well). However, I feel too strongly about this topic for me to ignore it forever, so here is the gist of my thoughts. I really like the word attribution and I find the lack of attribution disturbing. I bring this up because there are thousands of websites that absorb and regurgitate information published elsewhere for monetary gain without so much as a line stating where the original item was published. I used to have a major problem with them until I realized that there were just too many to deal with. There are lots of very good resources on how to deal with content theft. I […]

Developers are from Mars, Programmers are from Venus This is a diversion but it was a very good read, I liked almost everything that the essay had to say and I really wanted to share it. It almost felt as if I was reading a chapter from a book on Software Management. In school I had one professor (Dr. Henry Ledgard, obviously someone that influenced me quite a bit) who stressed the importance of the software development process and taught good software engineering practices more than the act of generation of code. I remember slugging through tons of arcane code generated through a primitive graphical planning software only to be told at the end that the planning process was the most important. Ditties like “Developers like to satisfy a need, programmers like to finish” and “Programmers like complexity, developers favor simplicity” really strike a chord with me.