Are engineers more creative than designers?
On Tuesdays, I write about the top voted question on Ask Berkun (see the lovely archive). This week’s question came via email…
Category: Software/Web development
The First Time I Saw The Web
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the web, here’s my story. I was a senior at CMU in…
When is it ethical to sell low quality products?
This month I’m posting every day, picking the top voted reader question and answering it. With 50 votes, today’s winner, submitted…
The Best Narrative Books about Making Software
I read many books about the making of great things. I want to learn everything I can from historic…
Why Do Communities Thrive or Die? Questions wanted
[The panel is over: notes from it are here] Next This week I’m moderating a panel on building online communities…
How WordPress.com is made
Some of you know, in addition to my writing and speaking work, I work as a team lead for…
How Private are Facebook Executives?
Thanks to the New York Times, I got a chance to ask Elliot Schrage, VP of Public Policy at…
Gears of War 3: My wishlist for Horde
I own an XBOX 360, but only play a handful of games. Most games I’ve tried these last years…
The new browser wars: an analysis
A billion years ago I worked on web browsers. I’ve written about them before, and got myself into trouble…
Why New Systems Fail: an interview
My friend Phil Simon published a book in 2008 called Why New Systems Fail. The book explores the many…
The end of the killer feature
At The Economist Ideas Economy event Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, in an excellent talk about open source software,…
Cloud Computing is a bad metaphor
At a certain point you hear a name for something so many times it looses any real meaning. It’s…
Highest Paid Opinion Wins
Found this nice observation on work culture, that could fit in the ever growing asshole driven development list: HiPPO…
McConnell’s 10 deadly sins of estimation
Hi there. I’m now back from my ramble through Scandinavia. If you were at my seminar in Milwaukee (we…
New O’Reilly book: Beautiful Teams
There’s a new book, soon to be released from O’Reilly called Beautiful teams, edited by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer…
How to deal with people who are jerks
Christian recently asked, in a comment on how project managers get power: How did you work with those infamous…
Top 100 blogs for software developers
Jurgen Appelo over at Noop.nl put together a list of the top 100 blogs for software developers. My blog,…
How to run a bug bash
Running a bug bash is a dirty secret of software development. You won’t read about them in software engineering…
Report from Web 2.0 expo
Thanks to Brady Forrest and Jen Pahilka for giving me not one but two slots this week in a…
WordPress 2.5: Review
Last week I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. I’m a huge WordPress fan, I love what these…