Kyle Cordes

Historically I have not been a fan of “frameworks”, and I have often repeated the following joke:
What’s the difference between an application and a framework?
An application is something a customer actually wants!
However, for some applications, I recommend use of an application framework. For some Oasis Digital projects, I require it:
Please, Use a Web Application Framework
My […]

A few months ago Alex Miller pointed me to this Delphi doom article (the site appears to be down at the moment), which reminded me to post about the same topic. Here goes.
Delphi shipped in 1995, and its demise has been declared frequently since 1997 or so. In a sense this demise is true, yet […]

I’ve been a fan of Joel Spolsky for years, though I haven’t agreed with everything he’s written, and even mocked him a bit. Joel has written at length on his web site and in print about attracting the best developers, and one aspect of that has bothered me:
How do you attract top developers to work […]

Is it OK to use programming language X in a production enterprise application? Or are fear, uncertainly, and doubt holding you back? Public “success stories” might make it more acceptable for you to do so in your environment. In that spirit I offer our story of a production Python deployment at an Oasis Digital customer […]

A geographically distributed software development team (“distributed team”, for short) is simply one where developers don’t work in close physical proximity (within a few hundred feet). In such a time you interact mostly via electronic means.
To some readers a distributed team will sound like an obviously ridiculous idea, while to others it will sound quite […]

I recently read Tim Ferriss’s book The Four Hour Work Week, colloquially called 4HWW. The book is short, dense with ideas, and easily worth the $12 price. I recommend the book in spite of:

Questions about the veracity of Ferriss’s claimed accomplishments
Criticisms that some of his techniques are not as broadly applicable as he makes them […]