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By: Mind-NOX · Laws of Software Development

Mind-NOX · Laws of Software Development — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:53:35 +0000

[...] Global Nerdy » Blog Archive » Laws of Software Development 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. [...]

By: BlogFour » The Named Laws of Technology

BlogFour » The Named Laws of Technology — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:23:29 +0000

[...] Named Laws of Technology July 23, 2007 – 5:09 pm by Eric Skiff Clipped from globalnerdy.comThe LawWho Said ItWhat it SaysAmdahl’s LawGene AmdahlThe speedup gained from running a program on [...]

By: xero

xero — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:04:35 +0000

…my law of usability: Make something idiot-proof, and they will make a better idiot.

By: The Razor, and Other Laws We Live By « Creative Spark

The Razor, and Other Laws We Live By « Creative Spark — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:48:00 +0000

[...] wacky Global Nerdy blog, which not only gave my brain a Friday afternoon stretch, but also featured Laws of Software Development, which is a lot more fun than it [...]

By: Hank Heath

Hank Heath — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:10:49 +0000

Heath’s Law of Authority:

If you detect an authoritarian presence, it’s too late.

Corollary: If you see the traffic cop, don’t bother to slow down

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:14:20 +0000

Brafford’s Law — Live music is like free software.

By: europium

europium — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:35:42 +0000

Europium’s Corollary: “The manager you work for will inevitably be the one who pressured his neurosurgeon into performing the six-hour operation in three.”

By: europium

europium — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:32:08 +0000

Europium’s Law of Inevitability: “The manager you work for will always be the one who believes that nine women can produce a baby in one month.”

By: europium

europium — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:24:56 +0000

Europium’s Exhortation: “One’s reach should always exceed one’s grasp.”

By: genesis

genesis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:12:02 +0000

Thanks for that important information about laws it really helpful..Interesting article.

By: David Cassel

David Cassel — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:40:56 +0000

“If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.”

Apparently has a medical origin, but very relevant.

By: Scriptorama.nl » Software Development ‘wijsheden’

Scriptorama.nl » Software Development ‘wijsheden’ — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:25:10 +0000

[...] Vanochtend was ik op zoek naar wie een bepaald regeltje nu precies had bedacht en kan vervolgens terecht bij een prachtig overzicht van Software Development Laws op GlobalNerdy.com. [...]

By: Bob Strauss

Bob Strauss — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:18:12 +0000

Richard McDonough:
Are you the person I once knew at Cornell’s grad school, back around 1970?

By: Depth First Search » Blog Archive » Today’s Misc.

Depth First Search » Blog Archive » Today’s Misc. — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:32:10 +0000

[...] This wouldn’t be an issue except for: The userbase for strong cryptography declines by half with every additional keystroke or mouseclick … [...]

By: Laws Of Software Development » SDLC Blog

Laws Of Software Development » SDLC Blog — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:07:25 +0000

[...] Laws Of Software Development Ferdy October 21st, 2007 – 11:07 pm Software Development Average time to read 0:20 minutes It’s a bit old, but I discovered these links today. Phil Haack collected together in a post 19 Eponymous Laws Of Software Development, and Joey deVilla, inspired by Phil’s article, collected more laws, axioms and rules pertaining to mainstream software development and put them in a nice, easy-to-read table in Laws of Software Development. [...]

By: QrazyQat

QrazyQat — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:37:22 +0000

“In the chart, if a breezier paraphrasing the law exists, I used that instead. Hence, wherever possible, I linked the name of each law to a page that had a more technically correct description (including formulae, where applicable).”

The link part is good, but the paraphrase you used is simply incorrect. It’s very common for people to use this incorrect description of Occam’s Razor, but that does not make it more correct. Occam’s Razor does not say anything about an idea being correct or even likely to be correct, just that you probably want to go with it until the evidence favors something else.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:34:12 +0000

Don’t know who said them:

“Never test for an error you don’t know how to handle.”

“Debuging code is twice as hard as writing it. If you write it to the best of your ability, then you will never be able to debug it.”

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Featured links for July 18th at aoortic! dot com — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:40:20 +0000

[...] Global Nerdy » Blog Archive » Laws of Software Development – "Lister’s Law: People under time pressure don’t _think_ faster." [...]

By: Blah, Blah, Blahg - Techie, security, political, and other useless miscellany » Named laws of software development

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:05:36 +0000

[...] ragmanx The Global Nerdy blog (no, I’d never heard of it before either) has a compilation of named laws of software development. These are comments from relatively well-known (to the geek community, at least) folks that got [...]

By: kris

kris — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:30:32 +0000

Not specifically programming related, but for security in general (more and more relevant to programming everyday in the Web 2.0 world):

Spafford’s first principle of security administration – “If you have responsibility for security but have no authority to set rules or punish violators, your own role in the organization is to take the blame when something big goes wrong.”

link:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1679514,00.asp