So what is a developer experience anyway?

Brad has a post on choosing parameter names for overloaded methods which brings to mind a recent question on an internal mailing list about using acronyms for parameter names. In general, when determining whether or not it's reasonable to use an acronym...

I'm running a study this week on the Beta 1 version of the System.Net namespace. In addition to the feedback I'll be collecting from participants, I thought it would be useful to capture any comments that anybody else might have on the usability of this...

Brad Myers from CMU was here today giving a talk which included some details of the Whyline system, a debugger that allows programmers to ask questions about the behavior of their application in order to be able to figure out what the problem is (there...