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A TechCrunch article today an interesting statistic. 100 million person-hours to write all of Wikipedia. 175 million person-hours spent every day on Facebook. The mind boggles. I hate posting soundbites like this, but honestly, I can't think of anything more to say on the subject.
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Every day as I drive home from work, I pass a rather non-descript old factory building by the side of the Bruckner Expressway. Last fall, I noticed that it was getting spruced up. New windows, fresh bright yellow paint on the fire escapes, that sort of thing. I wondered what was going on, but it was only this afternoon that I discovered what was up.
It turns out this is a landmarked building, built by the American Bank Note Company in 1909 as a printing plant. After being unused for years, it is ...
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As the saying goes, test happens. Sometimes it happens because the developer writes and runs the tests at the same time he's writing the code. When this happens, bugs get found quickly. And they fixed quickly, when it's cheap and easy. Life is good.
Sometimes, it happens when the code gets thrown over the wall to the QA department. This might be a few days later. In some shops, it might be weeks or months later. By that time, the developer who wrote the bug has probably forgotten everything about the code and has to spend time getting ...