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Flow Design
One of the pitfalls of software design is for people to only concentrate on the narrow case where everything works as desired, but ignore all of the other cases where it has gone partially or totally wrong.

Data flow analysis can help avoid this.

The idea is that given some complex scenario for software mechanics, we can fully iterate all of the issues in ...

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Uncertaincy
While each line of code is pretty simple, and a few of them are not much worse, assembling big collections of code that behaves as expected is crazy difficult.

I used to think it was just scale that was the problem. Remembering a list of five things isn’t too bad; remembering a list of fifty things is beyond most people’s ability.

That can be solved with o...

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Properties
Code is a set of instructions for a computer to follow.

But code also has additional properties, beyond its runtime behaviour. There are lots of them.

A simple one is readability. Some code is cryptic; it takes a lot of investigation to figure out what it will do. Some code is self-explanatory. It’s written in a clear style so that most programmers can quic...

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Methodology
My very first experiences with different methodologies for software development date back to the early nineties. I’ve lived through some heavyweight ones over the decades, including those in healthcare. 

Realistically, we need methodologies, even if we don't like to be confined by them. Too many loose strings in a project will eventually tangle.
Which is why I li...

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Predictions
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