McCall’s (1977) innovation was the creation of a relationship between quality and metrics. McCall covers all aspects of software development in a way that is, in my opinion, still actual for the best part. McCall shows its age essentially in how it covers the software lifecycle because it embeds the waterfall process in its structure. McCall also focuses on technological aspects such as portability and standards that are still actual, but largely resolved by standardized frameworks and technologies that are inherently platform-independent. [Read More]

Do you want to have a nice @yourmastodon@yourdomain? [Read More]

Deploying a service on a new machine, I ran into a problem. Some services did not want to start, and the error was very cryptic [Read More]

I’m solving the Advent of Code 2022 pushing all the code to GitHub and I’m also following the Advent of Cyber 2022. [Read More]

Staffing issues typically originate from a failure to understand project requirements, flawed resource estimation, and poor management. In my current role, I have found that hiring and retaining good developers can be challenging in today’s marketplace due to their massive demand. High salaries and extravagant titles aren’t enough; as a company, we constantly balance keeping our employees challenged and engaged without over-working them. Furthermore, I have seen an increased desire for developers to work on truly meaningful and interesting projects. [Read More]