July 2008

Slides From My Talk

July 24, 2008
So, I just had my talk, Code Simplicity: Software Design In Open Source Projects at OSCON 2008. It went really well! Here’s the slides from my talk (also available in PDF Format).…

Talking at OSCON

July 22, 2008
I’m going to be talking at FOSSCoach, a free series of lectures at OSCON. You don’t need a session pass to attend, but you do need to register (for free). I’ll be…

The Source of Bugs

July 21, 2008
Bugs most commonly come from somebody’s failure to reduce complexity. Less commonly, they come from the programmer’s misunderstanding of something that was actually simple. Other than typos, I’m pretty sure that those…

What Is A Bug?

July 18, 2008
Okay, most programmers know the story—way back when, somebody found an actual insect inside a computer that was causing a problem. (Actually, apparently engineers have been calling problems “bugs” since earlier than…

FOSSCoach 2008

July 1, 2008
If you’re going to be in Portland, Oregon or attending OSCON and you want to hear me talk, I’ve proposed a session for FOSSCoach called Code Simplicity: Software Design In Open Source…
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