Developing for Developers

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Today I'm going to talk about the important problem of successfully tracking dependencies in builds in an automatic manner. In short, there are two kinds of build systems: the ones where all dependencies are tracked...

If asked what they do, some developers might say "I write code" or "I program computers". But more fundamentally, what is computing really about? After all, Euclid's algorithm for computing the greatest common denominator of two numbers in polynomial...