Category Archives: Software Development In leading software development teams for almost two decades, I have learned that good software development is notoriously difficult. In 2005, an IEEE Spectrum article entitled “Why Software Fails” discusses this problem by highlighting several different reasons why software projects fail and the costs of these failures. Here is one particular quote that brings the... Often underestimated and rarely understood, naming strategies in software development can make a huge difference in how well and easy code is understood. In my opinion, an intuitive naming strategy can be the most significant benefit to a software project. A good naming strategy will not only help programmers communicate better and more efficiently, but... At DMMD we have developed a Photoshop Host SDK that will allow you to run any Photoshop Plugin without the use of Photoshop. This can be a very powerful tool that allows you to integrate existing Photshop Filters into your own application, without the need of Photoshop. In theory, we can even use DMMD’s Phothsop... In trying to come up with better methods of organizing and presenting concepts related to DMMD’s Software Development practices, I am compiling a manual with all of the different ideas. The latest PDF manual (generated with LaTeX) will always be available for download here. Certain chapters from the manual will also be presented in these...  Software branching is an important sub-process of the overall software development process. The practice that we follow at DMMD is shown in the following figure. In the above figure, time progresses from left to right and it is recorded using a changelist. A changelist is a number that increases each time a new submission to... |
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