I was recently talking to a company about their development team’s adoption of new technology, frameworks, and the overall sophistication of their projects.   During the conversation, the IT manager made several comments about wanting to become a more “completeâ€� development shop. Thi...

George Waters of Illinois State University on the economic crisis and the state of macroeconomics: Equilibrium and Meltdown, by George A. Waters: Equilibrium in economics is such a ubiquitous concept some might be surprised to hear that it is also controversial. It is hard to imagine doing much econ...

Perhaps the biggest problem area for the software industry is the inability to accurately estimate work. However, this is only because people allow themselves to give out wild ass guesses on very coarse grained and undefined pieces of work....

Luis had faithfully attended the training sessions for church planting. He lived across the river from Guayaquil in the neighboring city of Durán. In his local community, everyone knew the friendly Luis who operated a small business out of his home selling eggs, TP, bananas, rice, batteries, and ot...

We get a lot of bug reports on the JRuby project. No, it's not because JRuby's a buggy POS. It's because we're implementing the core of an entire platform. It's hard....

I am currently reading through Bob Robert's The Multiplying Church: The New Math for S tarti n g New Churches. The book offers the author's insights on why churches are multiplying in the East but not in the West...keys to church multiplication...the missing link--pregnant mother churches... Antioch...

Designing software is hard work. Keeping an engineering notebook can help reveal your own development practices and can help you become a better programmer....

How to Hallucinate With Ping-Pong Balls and a Radio Makes you wonder how much of the rest of our reality is only a conventional illusion.Tags: hallucination mind illusion purkinje perception Preston L. Bannister { random memes } Precisely (in an as-precisely-as-you-can-map-reality sort of way).Tags:...

Smart programming isn't always about the hard stuff. Sometimes, it's just doing the simple, but clever, things. Here's a tiny example....

I don't think Anatole Kaletsky is very impressed with the models used by financial economists: Now is the time for a revolution in economic thought, by Anatole Kaletsky, Commentary, Times Online: ...In this article I will outline some of the unorthodox approaches to economics which conventional ...