Tags → “Joel Spolsky” 

26-Jan-2004

Resume, Resume

With today I resume regular employment. More in a little while. If you’re out there, and looking for work, I recommend you read this article, by Joel Spolsky: Getting Your Resume Read. It’s really excellent advice. A buddy of mine was doing some hiring recently, and he was astonished by the number of people who…

23-Mar-2002

Over-engineering = The Enemy

My theme lately at work has been to rail against over-engineering. What’s that, you ask? It’s overthinking the architecture and overdoing the planning phase of a project. This is not to say that application architecture has no place. Planning and design is critical. However, the propensity one has, when programming, to try and account for…