Grab bag: All election, all the time

Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone A slanted look at McCain’s record. But it does expose some interesting angles–his service record in particular–that you don’t hear about very often. (tags: 2008 election mccain) Article Comparison: Obama/Biden Vs. McCain/Palin – The Public Editor – – Clark Hoyt – New York Times Blog Interesting balanced summary of articles [...]

Technical Debt part II: Security debt

I wrote previously about “technical debt,” the concept that the decision to defer necessary technical work (adopting an updated version of a new component, refactoring code to reduce cruft, etc.) accumulates across releases until it absorbs a project team’s entire capability to develop code. You “pay interest” on technical debt because it’s much harder and [...]