I have spent my entire career (thus far) building and maintaining line-of-business web applications for various organizations. I am not the fastest at building new apps, but I’m one of the best at managing complexity and I care deeply about continuous adaptive maintenance (which costs money but can save you from…
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As software developers, I think we can agree that open-source 1 code has transformed the world . Its public nature tears down the walls that prevent some pieces of software from becoming the best they can be. The problem is that too many valuable projects stagnate, with burned-out leaders:
There's quite a lot of talk these days about Single Page Applications (SPAs) and the terrific user experience they deliver. This is great, and the SPA architecture is probably a good fit for many apps, but I want to point out two reasons why SPAs are harder to develop and maintain than tr