Architecture – Programmer Musings

OOMP: The Most Important Engineering Principle

One of the things that separates the professional developer from a hobbyist is understanding the principle of Good Enough (or possibly sufficient). This does not mean the absolute minimum you can do. It is also not the same as cutting corners or making a prototype. This is the recognition of the point of diminishing returns… Read More »

Ease of Development as a Quality Metric

I recently been studying software architecture and have had a minor epiphany. My assumptions about code complexity may have been unnecessarily pessimistic. From my experiences in software development, I have observed that more powerful or more robust systems are naturally more complex. A side effect of this observation is that beginning to do development on… Read More »