Paul Stadig

Brooks' Law is wrong. Brooks' Law (the pithy version) is: "adding people to a late project makes it later." There is some ...

Introspection into my own process for making software has led me to believe that writing prose and programming are fundamentally the same ....

How does one survive life undamaged? Seriously... if you figure it out let me know. I particularly mean self-inflicted damage. You can...

I firmly believe that writing software is a creative act. I believe that a construction project---or any other linerally presenting process...

Most computing devices that we have today---desktop, laptop or phone---are capable of computing any program that can be computed. There'...

My reading habits are lumpy. I find I'm either not reading anything, or I'm reading seven books at once, and when I am, I wish I co...

What is the nature of software engineering? How is it different from other kinds of engineering? Why is it so hard? These are questions I ...