Mike Hadlow

Life as a mort.

When people are doing a physical task, it’s easy to assess how hard they are working. You can see the physical movement, the sweat. You also...

TL:DR You can not observe a developer without altering their behavior. First a story. Several years ago I worked on a largish project...

TL:DR Successive, well intentioned, changes to architecture and technology throughout the lifetime of an application can lead to a fragmente...

The 2001 agile manifesto was an attempt to replace rigid, process and management heavy, development methodologies with a more human and soft...

TL;DR: All the evidence shows that programming requires a high level of aptitude that only a small percentage of the population possess. The...

When I was a young coder, just starting out in the big scary world of enterprise software, an older, far more experienced chap gave me a ste...