An American colloquialism holds, “only two things are certain: death and taxes.”  If I had to appropriate that for the software industry, I might say that the two certainties are death and...

In 2002, Joel Spolsky coined something he called “The Law of Leaky Abstractions.”  In software, an “abstraction” hides complexity of an underlying system from those using the abstraction.  Examples abound, but...

When I’m called in for strategy advice on a codebase, I never arrive to find a situation where all parties want to tell me how wonderfully things are going.  As...

If you’re familiar with NDepend, you’re probably familiar with the Visual Studio plugin, the out of the box metrics, the excellent visualization tools, and the iconic Zone of Uselessness/Zone of...