You can’t develop software and manage software projects for 30 years and not learn a thing or two about writing good code. Here are a near-dozen nuggets of coding wisdom I picked up along the way.

As the guidelines paper notes, however, these rules are meant to make it possible to make mission critical code clearer, easier to analyze, and ultimately safer. Check out the PDF below for the ...

On the Mark: Typically, business analysts give the lowdown on internal processes to IT developers, who then go off and write business rules into applications, says Mark Hall.

Elmore Leonard’s death this morning at age 87 has been greeted with a wave of online appreciation—for his great novels, his terrific movies, and his rules for writing. That last contribution ...