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Thoughts on Rewrites (Estimation)
Estimating rewrites is hard, and frequently developers got a tendency to underestimate such a task – as, in their mind, they know exactly how the system should work, as they already built it once.…
How to Predict next Disruptive Technology
On a very lazy Saturday I was pondering about what eventually could be the next great disruptor within technology, that I could lash onto and be among the first movers. But how would anyone be able to…
Random Thought
As a software professional I keep being astonished what users accept and put up with, when it comes to faulty, buggy and unfathomable useless apps or systems. You download an app from an AppStore, or…
Running apps without connectivity
The other day on my daily commute I was, as usual, reading the latest news on technology and other, to me, interesting areas, I ended up spending most of my commute reflecting on the subject of mobile…
Will Windows 8 bring MS into the tablet/phone game?
Recent I had a discussion about the contents of the following article: http://gizmodo.com/5839665/windows-8-slate-hands-on-its-fantastic-but-dont-sell-your-ipad, where I labeled a post: "Eventually…
Elephant butt, Software Development and Estimation
Okay, here's an interesting question: what does an elephant butt, software development and estimation have in common? At first thought not really much, but then again they actually have a lot in…
Smart Clients Versus Web Clients - What's the Answer?
For a long period of time every ISV jumped on the browser bandwagon, meaning creating web versions of their existing fat clients. This transition was driven by Google's everything web mantra, together…
Is HTML5/JS really the Silver Bullet for Mobile Applications?
HTML5 and JavaScript seems to be getting a lot of attention and being pushed as the next great set of technologies for write-once-deploy-many for mobile devices. If that crystallizes it would be great…
Native Tooling versus Non-native Tooling
Recently I've been following some interesting discussions on the subject whether to develop native apps for mobile or using cross platform technologies. Let me elaborate what I mean by native apps. A…
Choosing the right tools
Over the course of the last couple of years, I've been working on a lot of different projects where we initially had to make some technology decisions on what development ecosystem to use. By…
The Future of Software Development
It's becoming more and more clear that monolithic applications are going the way of the Dodo. With the general adoption of smart-phones, tablets computers and social network portals users starts…
Essence of being a successful Development Manager?
The above question was sent to me the other day from a former colleague and friend. He was preparing a presentation for heads of product management and product development, and not being an…