Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . Here’s one more thought on the subject of complexity in software development: software development is NP-hard . Software development...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . My previous post talked about how software development can’t be modeled by any process that’s significantly less complex than...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . A recent internal email thread asked about the difference in philosophy between Agile development and Waterfall-style development (or anything...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . My smart card renewal tool uses an authenticated SSL connection to communicate with a WCF web service hosted in IIS; that is, a client certificate...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . About six months ago I published some example code for enrolling for smart card certificates across domains . Of course, once you’re...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . Sometimes the Scrum process kind of breaks down. Maybe there’s confusion over backlog items, or some people end up with nothing to...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . This is a little late but there was an interesting internal thread about Tom DeMarco’s recent article in IEEE Software entitled “...

Update: this blog is no longer active. For new posts and RSS subscriptions, please go to http://saintgimp.org . Over the past few months there have been several interesting email threads on internal aliases at work that have helped clarify my thinking...