Jack Ganssle is an author, consultant, and software developer who focuses on embedded software.  He’s got an e-newsletter called The Embedded Muse I’ve been subscribed to for years, even though I haven’t done embedded development for quite some time, because he has great insight into software development in general.  He also talks about other related topics, like dealing with customers, dealing with coworkers, dealing with change, etc.

His most recent issue[0][1] talks about the failure of software reuse, especially in the embedded world.  Not that reuse isn’t great, but that we’re simply not doing it.Continue reading

I’ve mentioned Stack Overflow before in this post.  I just read a fun thread called What was the strangest coding standard rule that you were forced to follow? I gotta tell ya, there are some pretty strange ideas out there about good software development practices.  Of course the software development industry is no stranger to FUD.