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Shoveling Snow and Fixing Bugs

Dec 27 –

Shoveling snow is best done early, you may have to do it again, but it is a far easier affair. The same is true of buggy or troublesome code in a project, the sooner you fix the code the easier it will be.
The longer you wait to shovel the worse it gets, besides the additional [...]

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Diminishing Returns on Software Quality

Nov 06 –

Software production, like any other production, obeys the law of diminishing returns. Reducing flaws is part of the software production process so it also falls under this umbrella of diminishing returns. The law of diminishing returns states that when we add additional input into a production process we will see diminished output relative to the [...]

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Poor Quality Software is Incomplete Software

Jul 22 –

Software quality is term that is frequently misunderstood. A major flaw when defining software quality is that it specifies composition or aesthetic. Quality instead is more abstract. The best definition I could find was from the ISO 9000:
the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements — ISO 9000 : 2000
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About Ian Lintner


I am a software developer, mostly web,  in Des Moines, Iowa. I take a very opinionated stand concerning development, you will never regret a simple design or architecture. My education was at Drake University in Biology and Computer Science. Offline I am recently married to my wife Heather. I try my hand at many hobbies currently I am gardening till the snow comes in.



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