James Tauber : Software Craftsmanship

I use the term craftsmanship because I believe writing software is a craft. I also believe that writing code is something well suited to an apprentice-journeyman-master model particularly when applied in an open source context.

Pages in this category

Priority, Severity and Roundup

Posted Dec. 17, 2004; Updated Feb. 8, 2005

Branching in Subversion

Posted Dec. 22, 2004; Updated Feb. 8, 2005

More on Priority and Severity

Posted Jan. 3, 2005; Updated Feb. 8, 2005

Priority Levels

Posted Jan. 3, 2005; Updated Feb. 8, 2005

Which Releases Have This Bug

Posted May 22, 2005

Extreme Programming

Posted May 22, 2005

Mentoring the Summer of Code

Posted June 7, 2005; Updated June 30, 2005

Summer of Code Kick-off

Posted July 1, 2005

Summer of Code Blogs

Posted July 12, 2005

I'm Proud

Posted July 27, 2005

FOP

Posted Aug. 2, 2005

Revisting Versioned Literate Programming

Posted Dec. 2, 2005

Contributing to Open Source Python Projects

Posted Dec. 26, 2005

The Inverse Law of Bug Complexity

Posted April 19, 2006

SubEthaEdit Release and Bug Fix Announcements

Posted May 23, 2006

Update: pyjamas

Posted July 5, 2006

Google Code Project Hosting

Posted Feb. 15, 2007

Open Source Software

Posted Aug. 9, 2007; Updated April 28, 2008

Django Sprint

Posted Sept. 14, 2007

Programming as Jazz

Posted May 23, 2008

Question-Driven Commenting

Posted May 28, 2008

Programming Languages I've Learned In Order

Posted Sept. 28, 2008; Updated Sept. 29, 2008

Endo vs Exo

Posted Nov. 29, 2008

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