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  What's Wrong With Turkey? Software internationalization is difficult under the best of circumstances , but it always amazed me how often one particular country came up in discussions of internationalization problems: Turkey . For example, this Rick Strahl post from mid-2005 is... Posted Mar 14 2008, 12:59 AM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: software developers, software development, scott hanselman, preferred language, digits, rick strahl, software internationalization, bug reports, west wind web, perverse delight, cultural awareness, turkish prisons, web store, error logs, dasblog, formatting, default language, blog templates, fine software, circumstances

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  More language features revisited Since we're examining various aspects of the canonical O-O language (the three principals being C++, Java and C#/VB.NET), let's take in a review of another recent post, this time on the use of "new" in said languages. All of us have... Posted Feb 22 2008, 01:49 AM by Interoperability Happens Feeds Filed under: languages, implementation, vb, podcast, foo, software development, canonical, logic, amp nbsp, prior art, public constructor, scott bain, principals, joshua bloch, curious c, ties, abstract class, concrete class, emergent design

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  The Ultimate Unit Test Failure We programmers are obsessive by nature . But I often get frustrated with the depth of our obsession over things like code coverage. Unit testing and code coverage are good things . But perfectly executed code coverage doesn't mean users will use your... Posted Feb 14 2008, 11:59 PM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: audience, slides, business problems, alan cooper, interaction design, software development, unit test, reading list, obsession, insurgency, interaction designers, fellow programmers, marshmallow man, business folks, high technology, interaction designer, spice, test failure, classic books, code coverage

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  Sharing The Customer's Pain In this interview with Werner Vogels , the CTO of Amazon, he outlines how Amazon's developers stay in touch with their users: Remember that most of our developers are in the loop with customers, so they have a rather good understanding about what... Posted Dec 05 2007, 11:59 PM by Coding Horror Feeds Filed under: software developers, werner vogels, software development, good understanding, cto, realistic story, amazonians, corporate mandate, ivory tower software, daily routine, engineer, amazon customer, wishlist, real people, when was the last time, grandma, voice of the customer, tourists, service statistics, faraway land