Tag Archives: agility

Ignore the User

I vaguely remember reading something about this in the essays that 37Signals released some time ago called Getting Real.  Now as it was many moons ago and the human mind is fantastic at mangling memory I could have got this completely the wrong way around but here’s my take on it…. At the company I [...]

Methodologies, Martial Arts and Philosophy

I can’t help but make comparisons between software development, philosophy and martial arts as I’m passionate about all three. However, I’ve tried three times so far to write an in-depth analysis of the similarities and links between various types of each and failed to put it quite right so I thought a short sharp post [...]

37 Signals Release Essays as Ebook

The team over at 37Signals recently started offering 91 essays across 171 pages of an ebook on web app software development at the respectable price of $19. Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software [...]

Pragmatic Programming

Certified AddictI bought the Pragmatic Programmers guide first off as I had heard nothing but good reviews and I have to admit they are all very much deserved. I’d gotten far to used to the dry academic books of my university years and been generally put off technical tomes ever since, only getting them when [...]