“If it’s stupid but it works in combat, it ain’t stupid.” Remember the hedge-row busters at Normandy? “Tracers work both ways.” Be careful when, how and who you shot at...

John Gall as quoted by Grady Booch. Ken Spencer and Billy Hollis reminded us all about this one at the last Tech Fusion in Raleigh. Forget this one at your personal peril...

Me again. I’ve been saying this for decades

By Bill Jones (me) sometime in the last century… Don’t code ANYTHING we think we might need sometime. If nobody’s gonna use it – don’t code it. It’s gonna change before it gets real. We do, of course, have to make our code extensible “because it is always gonna change...