Software The Power of Questions (Mike Fisher) "mastering the art of critical inquiry" The Value of Values (Eric Normand) "A value needs teeth." 4 Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way The don't-DRY advice (i.e. DO repeat yourself) is just a cautionary tale of over-abstraction. Security, Maintainability, Velocity: Choose One (Tyler Treat) "The reality, however, is that these three priorities are competing with each other" Language of Business (Mike Fisher) "it's about bridging the gap between technical expertise and business acumen" 6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When (Rebecca Knight, HBR) Med Dev Ozempic And Other Weight Loss Drugs Will Only Work With Digital Health (Andrea Koncz) Resmed Stock Poised for Growth: Buy Rating Affirmed Amid Revenue Upswing and Margin … Interesting that this was published on the same day as the Lilly obesity drug announcement....
16-Apr-2024 Content of Interest
Software There is always something: Fighting distractions as a software developer (Dalibor Schon) "This article is a distraction. You should get back to your work! Or not?" Why Leaders Need Self-Awareness (Mike Fisher) A little off topic, but an interesting read nevertheless. Design is not recoverable from implementation (Eric Normand) "Anticipating changes is not design. Design is the higher level understanding of how we decompose the system into interacting parts." Creativity in Software Engineering (Abi Noda) "Creativity is not about originality, it’s about reusability" Med Dev Software as a Medical Device: key considerations for SaMD success | FutureScot (James Graveston) Web A Nobel Prize Winner And Chocolate (David Friedman) "dark chocolate is the way to go" No duh!...
08-Apr-2024 Content of Interest
Med Dev Using AI to Help Medical Devices Help Themselves (Kate Stephenson) United States: Preparing For FDA’s New Guidance For AI/ML Medical Devices - Mondaq Software Ruby on Rails Is Not Dead and May Even Be AI Panacea for Devs (Richard MacManus) “GitHub’s primary codebase is a large Ruby on Rails monolith with over 4.2 million lines of code across roughly 30,000 files." Thoughtworks Technology Radar Volume 30: April 2024 Always good to review technology trends....
28-Mar-2024 Content of Interest
Software It’s Not About The Great Idea (Mike Fisher) "great ideas don’t magically turn into great products." Google Testing Blog: What’s in a Name? Good advice: "thoughtful names can save the reader (and writer) a lot of time and frustration." The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation (David L. Rogers, HBR) Above my pay-grade, but still a good read. The WORST Domain Modeling Mistakes! (Derek Comartin) "a heavy focus on technology in terms of programming languages, frameworks, libraries and tools, rather than the business problem at hand....
21-Mar-2024 Content of Interest
Software An architect is not an evangelist (Bart Wullems) Productivity in Silence: The Ideal of Eliminating Meetings (netleon) "Meeting optimization not only saves time but also often reveals and eliminates deep imperfections in internal processes." Semantic AJAX-HTML (Herman Martinus) Fiddling around with HTMLX A Few Words on Testing (Thorsten Ball) "... maybe there’s no correlation between software quality and tests." Med Dev Designing Wearable Healthcare Devices We Can Trust - MedTech Intelligence Market "is expected to reach $250 billion by 2032"!...