Vincente’s Rules for Software Development

Vincente’s Rules for Software Development

(adapted from Gerry Dubois)

• Know your hardware

A cloud is just someone else’s datacenter

• First you get good, then you get fancy

Prototype, prototype, prototype

• Show me the code

Saint Dogbert will slay the Demons of Stupidity

• Stay off the critical path

Try to not be the reason other tasks are blocked

• Your tester is your friend

It is better to find bugs in the lab than in the field

• You get paid by the time, not the line

Enjoy working outside your box.  “You are coin operated.”

• The company is not a charity

When you help the company, the company helps you

• If your program cannot fit in 64K, then it has probably been written incorrectly

In other words, modularize and optimize.  Data is not included.
The Apollo Guidance Computer had only 36K

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