Manuel Klimek

I just finished reading Steve McConnell’s Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules. Well, many times it was not exactly “reading”, more like “page-skipping”. Obvious. Obvious. Obvious. But every time I thought I knew what was coming there was something unexpected hidden inside this big recapitulation of Fred Brook’s findings. With big hard data pictures on [...]

The book in one sentence
A short, modest and dryly written book with some brilliant new concepts and a lot of too easy solutions which is worth reading because of the brilliant ideas.
Preceding events
How did it come about that I read a book about software metrics? I will have to digress somewhat before answering the question. [...]

When I wrote my first computer program in BASIC I didn’t know anything about software design. My variable names used to be mathematically short and contain a lot of numbers. I wrote tightly coupled functions without parameters and synchronized the whole mess by a myriad of unstructured global data.
This is what naturally happens when you [...]

When I was a teenager I used to sit at my computer many hours a day, pondering about interesting computing problems, like writing a magic eye 3d creator or a cool battletech computer game. The first important computer book I read (after reading the micrsoft basic handbook) was “Spiele programmieren mit QBASIC” (Programming games in [...]