David Weiss

Especially with a code base that is mature, assumptions correctly made years ago can be terribly difficult to deal with later when the curre...

A few tweets ago, (I always feel weird referring to Twitter in the past tense) I posted : Why are the unintelligent or uninformed so arrogan...

Here's a blast from the past. As Xcode continues to improve as the default IDE on the Mac and for the iPhone, the majority of Apple...

You don't have to understand calculus to appreciate this entertaining story : A teacher, trying to explain what a theory is, asked this ...

When I was a little boy my Mom had me memorize this little poem: Stick to your task ’til it sticks to you; Beginners are many, but enders ar...

When Apple announced that the "sweet" iPhone Software Development Kit was going to be AJAX and "Web 2.0 stuff", most dev...

Everyone has their own favorite language. Steve Rowe just pointed me to this funny my-language-is-better-than-yours graph. I found it real...

The following quote is from a long article on Toyota in the New York Times : Improving efficiency in the factory, though, doesn’t necessaril...

This is part 3 in my "Blogs I Read" series. I hope you find it useful. ADC Headlines - Apple - Feed I find it really useful to ke...

I just got this email from Apple: What can I say? Apple, you just made my day. (And pushed me that much closer to a Video iPod...) It looks...

Jonathan Rentzsch is putting on a small developer conference called C4 . For various reasons I'm not able to go, but oh how I want to. ...

Today marks the official beginning of sprint number 2 for the Automation Team. Last month was our first attempt at a modified Scrum . I ment...

Oh now this is so, SO refreshing and from a "Cocoa" developer no less! I don't know how many times I've heard the commen...

This is kind of a test, since I don't know what kind of expertise exists with you my faithful reader, but I need some advice, or rather,...

I just watched a video on Channel 9 where Robert Scoble interviews David Anderson about the work he's doing at Microsoft. I thought i...

I just got my WWDC 2006 T-shirt and it has just these three words on it: Veni. Vidi. Codi. Does anyone know what they mean? Is this some L...

Now this is interesting. Jack Greenfield and Keith Short take on the future of software development: Total global demand for software will...

In a kind of déjà vu moment, two of my favorite blogs posted about the same thing, on the same day! The topic: How writing code is similar t...

I've written before about our ExCodeWarrior dev shirts we got as reward for successfully moving our code from CodeWarrior to Xcode . W...

After reading John Siracusa's hilarious post about WWDC Buzz Word Bingo , I got to thinking about what I'd most like to see at WWDC...