The OldWood Thing

As a general rule being consistent is better than not being consistent. We create guidelines for how our code looks and what idioms and patt...

The length of my last post “ Unit Testing Evolution Part II – Naming Conventions ” was already massively over budget and it was largely abou...

Well over 4 years ago I fell into the very trap I once heard Kevlin Henney warn me about: don’t append “Part I” to the end of a title as it...

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

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...

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

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...