Software Engineers Work/Life Balance

Itamar Turner-Trauring has written an interesting piece about Software Engineers Work/Life Balance. Work/Life Balance Will Make You a Better Software Engineer https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/10/work-life-balance-software-engineer/ Interesting advice. Hard to follow.

MicroPython

Just found this Python 3 implementation for micro controllers.   MicroPython – Python for microcontrollers https://micropython.org/

Squeak Turns 20! — The Weekly Squeak

Please Donate to Squeak! Craig Latta writes: Hi all– Happy 20th birthday to us! It was twenty years ago that Dan Ingalls and the rest of Alan Kay’s team announced Squeak to the world. You really changed things with this run at the fence. […]

Old Geek (aka Programmer)

Maybe this is just happy coincidence, but I continue stumbling over articles about old programmers. John Wheeler even created an online job search for old programmers. Old Geek Jobs https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/old-geek-jobs Looks like there’s some demand.

Taste Haskell

Dennis Felsing has written a nice tutorial about Haskell. A Taste of Haskell https://hookrace.net/blog/a-taste-of-haskell/ Let’s see, if I can make use of this.

Project delays and Software Estimation

Christian Maioli Mackeprang writes about software estimation. Project delays: why good software estimates are impossible http://chrismm.com/blog/project-delays-why-software-estimates/ He talks about the problem of estimating the implementation. But I think the bigger problem are missing requirements. How to estimate if people have no idea what they want?

More Old Programmers

Recently, I read an article by Ben Northrop. About old programmers. Meaning over 40. Now I came across an article of this topic by Neil McAllister on InfoWorld. Where do all the old programmers go? http://www.infoworld.com/article/2617093/it-careers/it-careers-where-do-all-the-old-programmers-go.html Interestingly, he too uses the age limit of 40.

Software Estimation

Interesting work from J.P. Lewis, Stanford University, about software estimation. Mathematical Limits to Software Estimation: Supplementary Material http://scribblethink.org/Work/Softestim/softestim.html No, it’s not simple.

Happy Birthday Fortran!

Fortran wird 60. Und ist in guter Verfassung. 1957 betrat die erste höhere Programmiersprache die öffentliche Bühne, im Oktober 1956 jedoch wurde schon eine erste Beschreibung von Fortran veröffentlicht, die nun demnach ihr 60-jähriges Jubiläum feiert. https://heise.de/-3351318 Auf die nächsten 60 Jahre! 🙂

Static types in Python

Tim Abbott, lead developer of the Zulip open source project, thinks they are good. Static types in Python, oh my(py)! http://blog.zulip.org/2016/10/13/static-types-in-python-oh-mypy/ Umm, I’m not sure about this.