Friday, 4 May 2012

Beware the Complacency Unit Testing Brings

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One phrase that is always sure to raise the ire of any good honest developer when something breaks is:- “well, it works on my machine” ...
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My “Agile SQL Tweet” Slide

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Before I put the PowerPoint slides for my ACCU conference talk on Database Development Using TDD up on my web site I agonised over whethe...
Wednesday, 2 May 2012

My ACCU Conference Session - Database Development Using TDD

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It’s been a busy few weeks as I’ve been preparing to present at the 2012 ACCU Conference in Oxford. This has become somewhat of a pi...
Wednesday, 22 February 2012

OK & Apply - A Failed UI Experiment?

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As you may have guessed from my previous two posts, I have been paying far more attention than usual to how other IT professionals[*] work...

Copy-and-Paste Can Help Avoid Mistakes Too

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In the software development world the term “copy-and-paste” is synonymous with bad practice . Web sites and books are filled with advice abo...
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Don’t Let Your Tools Pwn You

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Modern development tools such as IDEs and their associated multitude of plug-ins, such as ReSharper , can definitely improve productivity. ...
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Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Diagnostic & Support User Interfaces

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When people talk about user interfaces they are invariably talking about the face of a product or system that the end-users see and/or inter...
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