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Every field comes up with its own jargon, and oftentimes subgroups within a field come up with their own specific words or phrases (those of you familiar with Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism Team know that we have our own term for “broken”, named after one of our teammates who is notorious for killing all sorts of tech gear). A question recently posted on Stack Overflow asked

It’s About Helping Your Users Become Awesome (or: “Being Better is Better” by Kathy Sierra) Kathy Sierra, who co-created O’Reilly’s “Head First” series of books and who used to write the very inspirational Creative Passionate Users blog, is awesome at helping users become awesome. I use her lessons as guidelines in my evangelism work and even borrowed from her to create a catchphrase that I used w

[This was also cross-posted to the Tucows Developer Blog] Inspired by Phil Haack’s article 19 Eponymous Laws of Software Development, I decided to collect laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software development and put them in a nice, easy-to-read table. This is by no means a complete list of laws; I’ve purposely stuck to the ones that apply to everyday software development and steere