Tuesday, 21 October 2014

So Many Wrongs, But No Rights

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As we approach Christmas, that wonderful time of year for giving and receiving, we also approach that annual corporate ritual that is the Ch...
Monday, 20 October 2014

What’s the Price of Confidence?

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I recently had one of those the conversations about testing that comes up every now and then. It usually starts off with someone in the team...
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Friday, 17 October 2014

Terse Exception Messages

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Yesterday, whilst putting together a testing tool, I hit one of those generic framework error messages that says exactly what’s wrong but sa...
Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Will Your Successor Be a Superstar Programmer?

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Something I struggle with when writing code is trying to factor in what the maintenance programmer that comes after me will be like. I’ve to...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Who’s Maintaining the 100 Foot View?

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Last year I watched Michael Feathers give the keynote at Agile Cambridge 2013 . It was another one of his Software Archaeology based talks ...
Monday, 6 October 2014

Should You Mention Your Bio When Speaking?

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The day before I was due to speak at the Agile on the Beach conference a re-tweet entered my timeline suggesting that mentioning your biogr...
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Friday, 3 October 2014

Building the Pipeline - Process Led or Product Led?

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[ Edit 03/2019: I’ve tweaked the title and text slightly as it was somewhat confusing and the title gave entirely the wrong message when see...