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Community Comment: Part 18 - Lines of code (LOC) is not a good productivity measure

* Lines of code (LOC) not good productivity measure * Preparation rewards !> participation rewards * Finish time matters for running race * End product matters for software The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Product Owner at Consultancy: “A developer should be writing at least as much in code

Media Query Source: Part 38 - InformationWeek (US digital magazine); Low code: satisfying meal or junk food?

* InformationWeek (US digital magazine) * Low code development platforms * Short-term benefits for the non-technical * Application lifespan often underestimated My responses ended up being included in an article at InformationWeek (May 10, 2022). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited article. The query

Community Comment: Part 17 - Implementing solutions is more important than estimating build effort

* Implementing > Estimating * Fine-grained software effort confidence level estimates meaningless * As with story point estimates, categories better * Breaking down problems decreases novelty, increases predictability The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread. Enterprise Agile Strategist at Cloud Content Management Firm: Q: How do I get accurate estimates?

Community Comment: Part 13

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6887723730819158016?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6887723730819158016%2C6889881950715199488%29 Programming Jokes / IT Humor & Memes Group: python or java ?? Gfesser: Just because both Java and Python are general purpose

Community Comment: Part 12

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6872288942620774400?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6872288942620774400%2C6873193451886825472%29 Chief Consulting Officer at Investment Management Firm: I've come to the conclusion that the working world is roughly

New Book Review: "Python Programming for Beginners"

New book review for Python Programming for Beginners: A Kid's Guide to Coding Fundamentals, by Patricia Foster, Rockridge Press, 2020: Copy provided by Amazon. In her one-page "How to Use this Book" introduction, Foster states that "this book will teach you the basics of Python

New Book Review: "Learning Spark (Second Edition)"

New book review for Learning Spark (Second Edition), by Jules S. Damji, Brooke Wenig, Tathagata Das, and Denny Lee, O'Reilly, 2020, reposted here: Copy provided by Databricks at Spark + AI Summit 2020. The foreword and preface to this book comment that an update to the first edition, published

Community Comment: Part 6

The comments I provided in reaction to a community discussion thread: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6747585009990852609?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6747585009990852609%2C6747641413837631488%29&replyUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6747585009990852609%2C6748184339915292672%29 Senior Software Engineer (ex-Facebook, ex-Netflix): A lot of data engineers

New Book Review: "Coding Concepts for Kids"

New book review for Coding Concepts for Kids: Learn to Code without a Computer, by Randy Lynn, Rockridge Press, 2020, reposted here: Copy provided by Amazon. I'm in the midst of reviewing a few programming minded books targeted specifically at children at middle school (intermediate school, junior high

Mentoring a Data Engineering Team while Running

A top 10 (US) grocer client contacted SPR to help them with their data lake. While we typically implement such solutions from scratch for our clients, the non-US division of this client had already put a solution in place, and the US division with which we worked was dependent on