As we move into 2011, it is good time to look at some trends in the Mobile space that we are likely to see more of in the year. The action that is happening in the Mobile space is tremendous with...
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Submitted by Michael Surkan on Mon, 2011-04-18 11:38 (US Pacific Time)As a lowly program manager I am feeling pretty unloved just now. We had yet another rancorous engineering team meeting today in which program... -
Submitted by Michael Surkan on Mon, 2011-02-07 10:44 (US Pacific Time)When it comes to coding productivity how much does the skill, and ability, of the developer count? Are the very best developers worth 10 times the...
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Submitted by Michael Surkan on Mon, 2011-01-31 10:58 (US Pacific Time)As the small software company I work for embarks on its effort to switch from Windows and .NET to open source and Java the results are mixed. We...
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Submitted by Michael Surkan on Mon, 2011-02-21 11:41 (US Pacific Time)There was a time when software engineers would spend months constructing highly efficient code in machine language, carefully watching every byte...
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Submitted by Michael Surkan on Sun, 2012-04-01 22:38 (US Pacific Time)Here are the results of our SEP Career Survey.
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Submitted by Michael Surkan on Mon, 2011-02-14 11:24 (US Pacific Time)One thing which has always troubled me about the software projects I’ve worked on is that the people who write the code at the beginning...
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Submitted by Michael Surkan on Mon, 2011-05-09 11:13 (US Pacific Time)As my company continues to migrate our web service away from Microsoft technologies to Java, Linux and Open Source we keep discovering that some...
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Submitted by Michael Surkan on Mon, 2011-05-02 10:08 (US Pacific Time)There are programmers and then there are kernel programmers. Building software that runs at the kernel level, deep in the bowels of operating...
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Submitted by Michael Surkan on Mon, 2011-06-06 12:05 (US Pacific Time)With all the news around Apple’s developer conference this week (and the iCloud hype), I couldn’t stop from thinking about all the...
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Submitted by Michael Surkan on Mon, 2011-07-04 11:44 (US Pacific Time)I haven’t met a software engineer yet who likes digging into someone else’s code to fix bugs or add new functionality. It is always a...