The GPS pioneer took direct hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.

Why you can't skip to the top (but you can skip to the bottom)

A field guide that also covers why we need to rethink our expectations, and what software engineering really is. A guest post by software engineer and engineering leader Addy Osmani

Static or dynamic, a program's design is written in its types.

The product of software development is not code but a mental model, a theory: a specific way of explaining the world.