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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Waste: Asking Whether to Fix a Bug
Some parts of our development are outsourced to another company, and the people in charge in our company like to be in control, so they have requested that the outsource company confirm everything they do. This additional bureaucracy causes a … Continue reading
Not all Bugs Deserve the Same Handling
It is good to put in place standards for handling reported problem, but the process is not the same for all bugs. Some deserve careful elaborate process, while others should just be snuffed and move on.
#30 Avoid Session Variable Abuse
When programming an application to run in a web server or app server, there is often the need to retain a value from interaction to interaction. It is easy, and very temping, to create a new session variable at the … Continue reading
Write Documentation, not Legal Contracts
I recently encountered an effort where a customer had decided to use some unanticipated web page functionality that conflicted with the working of the product. There was no way to rewrite the product to allow that exact customer modification. The … Continue reading