The Never-Ending Quest of Searching for Improvement
The ability to evaluate and compare different technologies is an essential skill of a professional software developer. The blog entries found from Technology Evaluation category will describe my thoughts about that subject.
One interesting idiosyncrasy of the software development industry is that the open source movement has created a number of development tools, which can be used to develop computer software free of charge. In some cases, this has been even used to justify the selection of a technology X over a competing technology Y. Even though [...]
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In my previous article called When Business Dictates Technology Selections, I wrote about arguments, which are used by management to overrule the technology selections made by technical staff. I also tried to describe, why I feel that managers should have control over technology selections. I have to admit that I was not doing a very [...]
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A few days ago I found myself in the middle of an argument concerning the best build tool for Java projects. Somewhere during the discussion, I realized that there is no tool, which is best in every possible situation. Naturally, this leads into a conclusion that the best tool for the job must be selected [...]
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