Greg Crisp

Technologist. Pragmatist.

Tag: software

The Industrial Software Press

Most bit plumbers I know either love or loathe Eclipse. Or they just make fun of it. I keep multiple copies and multiple versions of Eclipse on my laptop.

The Right Way: Defining the Problem

Over the next few weeks, you’ll find here a series of articles that discuss the “right way” to build software for the web. To paraphrase John Galt: ‘ Right?  By whose standard?’  I am the man who has asked that question.
I’m going to start by channeling Alan Cooper and define the problem.

Spending 10 minutes one day to save 5 every day after

You’ve heard the saying “unable to see the forest for the trees”?  So many projects suffer needless delays on many levels because there is so much work to do, that time can’t be spent up front to reduce the overall effort.
Here’s a small, but specific example I encountered recently, and how I made things better. [...]