software development

As I wing my way back to Seattle, returning from an IT conference in Las Vegas, I find myself reflecting, not on all the latest and greatest IT trends that were discussed over the past week, but on some of the basics I’ve learned during several decades in applications development. Although these practices manifest themselves differently at different times, as technologies and methodology movements come and go, they seem to me to have remained fundamentally constant over all these many years.

So here it is: my 12-Step Program to App Dev Nirvana.