Laws of Software

Today there was an interesting discussion between Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, and David Heinemeier Hansson on the nature and use of Test-Driven Development (TDD), where one writes tests first and then writes…

One thing we know about software design is that the future is important. However, we also know that the future is very hard to predict. I think that I have come up…

What if every software developer could gain the knowledge of long experience without having to go through the pain of repeated failure? What if, instead of being a continuous chaos of complexity…

Many people think that the readability of code has to do with the letters and symbols used. They believe it is the adding, removing, or changing of those symbols that makes code…

In the context of The Equation of Software Design, it is now possible to reduce the primary principles of software design into just two statements: It is more important to reduce the…

So today I was playing around with a little equation that may in fact explain nearly all of the principles of software design.…

One of the best ways to keep an app simple is, of course, to limit how many features you implement. Twitter, for example, has very few features, but is enormously successful. The…

In my previous post, I said that there are three major parts to any computer program: Structure, Action, and Results. Also, a program has Input, which could be considered a fourth part…

There’s a very popular model for designing software that we’ve all heard of if we’re web developers, and probably most desktop developers have heard of too: our old friend MVC. This works…

A big part of writing secure software (probably the biggest part) is simplicity. When we think about software security, the first question that we ask is, “How many different ways could this…