Index

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A

academia
Agile model
- retrospectives
Anecdote Time
Applied Software Project Management
- Stellman & Greene
Architecture Astronauts
Architecture Of Open Source Applications, The

Art of Software Testing, The
- Myers, Glenford J.
ASCII
- Control Chars
ASQ (American Society for Quality)
- quote: TQM describes a management approach…
astronomy
Atwood, Jeff

B

Bossavit, Laurent
- Leprechauns of Software Engineering, The
Brooks, Frederick P., Jr.
Bug Reports, writing
Bugayenko, Yegor
- quote: the job of a software architect is…
Building
- vs. Maintenance

C

Carlson, Roy
- quote: The sooner you start to code…
Cato the Elder
- quote: grasp the subject, words will follow
challenges
- see project challenges
Changes, managing
CHAOS report
Character Sets
- ASCII
- Eight-bit Encodings
- ISO 8859
- Windows Code Pages
Ching, Clarke
- quote: One of the most common causes of defects…
Chopin, Frédéric
- quote: After one has played a vast quantity of notes…
Clark, Ramsey
- quote: The measure of your quality as…
classic mistakes
Code
- Petzold, Charles
Code Complete
- McConnell, Steve
Code Review
Coding Standards
cohort analysis
College Advice
Comments
Communication
- Expectations (setting)
- handling disagreement
- overhead
- Project Management
- shoe on other foot
competency
Compilation
- Native Language Support
complexity
- compounding
- Essential vs. Accidental (Incidental)
computer science
- misconception
- name
computer scientist
Computering
Conceptual Integrity
- Design (Software)
Configuration Management
Considerations
- Construction
- Design (Software)
- Maintenance
- Project Management
- Quality
- Requirements

Considered Harmful
- Full Rewrites
Construction
Continuous Delivery
- Humble & Farley
- Internationalization
Continuous Delivery (CD)
Continuous Integration (CI)
- Fowler, Martin
- implementing
Conway's law
- Design (Software)
Conway, Melvin
- quote: Any organization that designs a system…
critical path
CRUD
CS Review
Cunningham & Cunningham
- quote: Always implement things when you actually need them…

D

Design Patterns
- Design (Software)
- in dynamic languages
Dijkstra, Edsger W.
- quote: Program testing can be used to show…
Dilbert
- designed to fail
disagreement, handling
Dischave, David
- quote: We were not using any water…
Dive into…
- Refactoring
- Test-driven Development
Do It Right
- Take Your Time
Do One Thing
- Construction
Documentation
Domain-Driven Design
- Evans, Eric
Done, what is?
- Scrum framework
Dōmo Arigatō, Mr. Roboto
Dr. Seuss
- great skillful-skill…
- quote: went right on biggering…
DRY
- Construction
Duff, Tom
- quote: whenever possible, steal code.
DVCS
- see Version Control Systems, Distributed

E

EOL
Errors
- swallowing
Essential vs. Accidental (Incidental)
- complexity
Evans, Eric
- Domain-Driven Design
- quote: That shallowness of knowledge produces…
Expectations (setting)
- Project Management
Extracting Strings
- Native Language Support
Extreme Programming
- core practices
- criticisms

F

F.A.Q.s
- see Frequently Asked Questions
Fagan, Michael
- Fagan inspection
failure
- see also project challenges
Fazal, Anwar
- quote: Little people doing little things…
Feasibility Study
feature creep
- see scope creep
Feeback hell
- Anecdote Time
Feedback Loops
Fellows, Michael R. (quote)
Feynman, Richard
- Challenger
Fight Club
- quote: A new car built by my company…
- quote: Can I get the icon in cornflower blue?
Fitness for purpose (Quality)
Fitz, Timothy
- quote: Continuous deployment is simple…

Five Whys, The
Five+ Worlds
Focus (saying no)
- Design (Software)
Font
- Symbola
Fonts, Symbola
- Unicode
Fowler, Martin
Fox, Chris
- quote: why design documents matter
free book
Frequently Asked Questions
functional specifications
- painless

G

Gamma, Erich
- quote: A design that doesn’t take change into account…
Gantt chart
Genchi Gembutsu
gettext
Giant Robot
GitHub/$SERVICE is My Resume…

Gluttons for Punishment
Goldfein, Jocelyn
- quote: Expensive software means predictability…
Grove, Andrew S.

H

Hoare, Tony
- quote: There are two ways of…
hofstadter’s law
Humanizing Peer Reviews

Humble & Farley
- Continuous Delivery
Hunt & Thomas
- quote: DRY: Don’t Repeat Yourself…
hurt feelings :(

I

i18n
- see Internationalization
I18n vs. L10n
- difference
Iceberg Secret, The
ID10T Error
IEEE CS
- quote: Effective software design begins…
IEEE SWEBOK

J

Jobs, Steve
- quote: Focus is about saying no.
- quote: Real artists ship.
Joel on Software
- see Spolsky, Joel

Johnson, Kelly
- More Than My Share of It All
- quote: Keep it simple, stupid!
Jones, Capers
- quote: High-quality software is not expensive…

K

Kanban
- compared to Scrum
- tools
Kaner, Falk, and Nguyen
- Testing Computer Software
Kelly: More Than My Share of It All (Johnson)
Kernighan, Brian

key stakeholders
Keyboard Layouts & IMEs
- Internationalization
Kickoff meeting
known-knowns
known-unknowns
Knuth, Donald
- quote: We should forget about small…
Kolodiy, Sergey
- quote: A reasonable combination of…
- quote: Trouble writing tests…

L

l10n
- see Localization
Law Enforcement
- Regional Concerns
Lean startup methodology
- Minimum viable product (MVP)
Least Surprise
- Construction

Least surprise, principle of
Left, to the
Leprechauns of Software Engineering, The
- Bossavit, Laurent
localepurge
- Native Language Support
Localization
Long-Term Support
LTS

M

Méndez, Daniel
- quote: A customer walks into a bar…
Mildly Irritated Props
Minimization of Complexity
Minimum viable product
mistake-proofing
Mockup
- Software
Modeling
- Design (Software)
Models
Mojibake
More Than My Share of It All
- Johnson, Kelly
Mother of all demos
Movies
- Particle Fever
- Pentagon Wars
murphy's law
MVP
- see Minimum Viable Product
Myers, Glenford J.
Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, The
- Brooks, Frederick P., Jr.

N

Nagpal, Gyan
- quote: Best practices are useful reference points…
Narayan, Sriram
- quote: When measurements become targets…
Narcissism of Small Differences, The
Native Language Support

Netscape Communicator
New Jersey Style
newest version of free book
NLS
- see Native Language Support
No Silver Bullet
- revisited
North, Dan
- quote: Behavior-driven Development is about…
Norvig, Peter
- design patterns in dynamic languages
Number and Currency Formatting
- Internationalization

O

Office Space
- TPS Report
Ohno, Taiichi
- quote: The root cause of any problem…
One Thing, Do
Onion, The
- quote: Does this mean I’ll need to…

optimism bias
Optimization
- Performance
Over-Engineering
- Design (Software)

P

Pair Programming
parkinson's law
Participation
- Native Language Support
Particle Fever (Movie)
Pasteur (quote)
PBKAC
Pentagon Wars (Movie)
Performance
- Optimization
Petrobras (P-36) disaster
Petzold, Charles
- Code
Pike, Rob
- quote: Measure
- quote: …can't tell where a program is going to spend its time.
Pilgrim, Mark
- Dive into Refactoring
- Dive into TDD
Pilot Project
Pirsig
Pirsig, Robert M.
- quote: A person who knows how to fix motorcycles…
planning fallacy
Poedit
- Native Language Support
Poka-yoke
Politics
- Ramifications
- Unintended Consequences
Post-Mortem
Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, The
Preparing Strings
- Native Language Support
Privacy
- Regional Concerns
Problem Definition
Process
- Construction
- Design (Software)
- Project Management
- Quality
- Requirements
Professional Software Development
- McConnell, Steve
Programming as Theory Building
Programming in a nutshell
Project Cartoon
- alpha one
- architect designed
- beta test
- client asked
- load response
- marketing advertised
- over-engineered
- PM understood
- programmer wrote
- salespeople described

project challenges
- big bang, the
- classic mistakes
- delays
- diagnosis and aftermath
- failure
- innovation risk
- notable failures
- optimism bias
- planning fallacy
- risks, management of
- sabotage
- scope creep
- see also Project Management
- self-serving bias
- train wreck, the
Project Management
- Association of Project Managers
- Closure
- Communication
- Considerations
- Control
- critical path
- Definition
- Documentation
- Estimation
- Estimation accuracy
- Execution
- Expectations (setting)
- In a nutshell
- Kickoff meeting
- Made easy
- Maintenance Documentation
- Managing changes
- Meetings
- Pilot
- Planning
- PMBOK
- Post-Mortem
- Process
- Release, traditional cycle
- Roles
- Scheduling
- see also project challenges
- Tools
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide)
Project Size
- Construction
Prototyping
Proverb
- quote: Internet has progressed…
Public Enemy
- quote: Fight The Power!
Purchasing This Book
Purpose

Q

R

Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
- McConnell, Steve
Readability
- Construction
Rebasing
Refactoring
- Dive into…
Regional Concerns
- Law Enforcement
- Privacy
Release, [1]
reluctance to document
- Design (Software)
Requirements

Retirement
- Windows XP
Reuse
- Construction
Rewrites, Full (Considered Harmful)
Rich, Ben R.
- Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir
Right People
Right Tool for Job
- Design (Software)
Risks, Management of
risks, management of
- project challenges
Robert M.
- Honda Super Hawk motorcycle
Rounding out education
Rubber Ducks
- Debugging
Rube Goldberg Machine
- Design (Software)
Rumsfeld, Donald
running late
- see delays, project
Runtime
- Native Language Support

S

S.O.S. Band, The
- quote: It seems we never take the time to do…
sabotage
samwho.co.uk
- to the Left
Sandwich
- Unicode
Scheduling
- unpredictability, Quality
scope creep
Scrum framework
SDLC
Second system effect
self-serving bias
Setting expectations
signboard
Silver Bullet
single
- change management; feature requests
Skunk Works
- A Personal Memoir (Rich)
- More Than My Share of It All (Johnson)
SMART Goals
Software
- Mockup

Software Development Life Cycle
software engineering
Software Requirements
- Wiegers, Karl E.
software system
Sokko, Johnny
Sophocles
Space Shuttle
- Design process
Spiral model
Spolsky, Joel
Spolsky/Atwood
- quote: No plain text…
stakeholders
Standish Group
Stellman & Greene
- Applied Software Project Management
Styx
Suicidal Tendencies
SWEBOK
Swedish Guy
- quote: There's no such…

T

Take Your Time
- Do It Right
Tashi Delek!
TDD
- see Test-driven Development
technical specifications, how to write
telescopes
Teletypes (Video)
Test Driven Development: By Example
- Beck, Kent
Test-driven Development
- Dive into…
Testable Code
Testing
Testing Computer Software
- Kaner, Falk, and Nguyen
Testivus, the way of
Text Encodings

Theory Building
Tichy, Walter F.
- quote: An important problem in program development…
Time and Timezones
- Internationalization
TL:DR
to the Left
- samwho.co.uk
Tools
- Construction
- Project Management
Torvalds, Linus
- quote: Bad programmers worry about the code…
Total Quality Management
TQM
Translation
- Native Language Support
tree swing project
Triangle of constraints
Tron
- quote: That's Tron. He fights for the Users.

U

Unintended Consequences
- Politics
Unlearning
unpredictability
- Quality Scheduling

V

Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.
- quote: Another flaw in the human character…

W

Wall, The
waterfall model
WBS
- see Work Breakdown Structure
Wiegers, Karl E.

X

XKCD
- compiling
- git

XP
- see Extreme Programming

Y

YAGNI

Z

Zawinski, Jamie
- quote: It explains why mediocrity…

Zen of Python, The