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The Stress Addiction Loop

In the last 30 years neuroscience has given us great insight into the workings of the human brain and as more information emerges, it becomes clear just how out of step with reality conventional attitudes...

Can Human Development be Agile?

There is an interesting case for agile development of infrastructure, applying lessons learned from the software world to civil engineering projects. This is a useful metaphor, but there is an...

By maetl, 12th December 2007 In: management organization agile politics environment infrastructure ecology philosophy

Software is not made of Bricks

Raganwald dissects the misguided metaphor from a software process perspective. I have come to believe that these kinds of problems are even more prevalent in the web development world than in...

By maetl, 30th August 2007 In: code programming software management organization objects systems design patterns architecture models java

Thinking Beyond Java

Last year, I picked up this curious book which seemed to sum up the zeitgeist of web programming in 2005 - an interesting and polemical twist from O'Reilly

By maetl, 24th March 2006 In: code languages organization management java ruby php