Month: December 2018

  • The Rules for Life

    Some years ago I was a software manager and I took on the task of writing coding standards. Any good software department has coding standards which define anything from the layout of the code on the screen to naming standards and how errors should be detected and dealt with. We had debates about the standards…

  • The solution to all your problems

    All your problems get down to one issue: the world doesn’t go as you would like it to. Of course there are a number of ways that this presents itself. We may be disappointed that something didn’t happen (we didn’t win the lottery), or that something did happen (a car accident) or that we did…