September 2008
18 posts
“We need no less than better corporate governance, a working shareholder...”
– How to Build a Next-Gen Business Now by Umair Haque
“When it comes to startups and small companies generally I have been saying for a...”
– The importance of lasting value by The Equity Kicker
“When your market cap […] can be utterly vaporized in a matter of days, it’s a...”
– How to Build a Next-Gen Business Now by Umair Haque
“[…] record/replay just doesn’t cut it. That’s why we’ve...”
– TDD. Killing the messenger? by Steve Freeman.
“Each test is a bet, a probabilistic investment. If it succeeds or fails...”
– Where, Oh Where to Test? by Kent Beck
“If someone doesn’t believe (yes, believe) in Agile/XP practices, especially...”
– Obie Fernandez comments on “How companies should hire developers”.
Interesting choice of language given his escape from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
RRS Bransfield →
The ship that took me from Grimsby to Antarctica.
Tumblr Ubiquity command →
TDD is how I do it, not what I do →
# You could end up writing less code to accomplish the same thing
# You might write better code that is less-coupled and more maleable
# The code tends to be testable because, well, it IS tested
#…
“‘Don’t step over the poo’. If it smells do something. A...”
– Tweet from Simon Baker.
Google on Google Chrome - comic book →
I can’t see a traditional PR department putting something as geeky as this together. It’s great to see that the selling points are all about solving existing problems in innovative ways.
“When the circus is coming to town and you put up posters in the shops that is...”
– Comment on the Newsnight blog regarding Peter Barron leaving to go to Google.
“* Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous...”
– Principles behind the Agile Manifesto
“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping...”
– Manifesto for Agile Software Development by Kent Beck, Mike Beedle, Arie van Bennekum, Alistair Cockburn, Ward Cunningham, Martin Fowler, James Grenning, Jim Highsmith, Andrew Hunt, Ron Jeffries, Jon Kern, Brian Marick, Robert C. Martin, Steve Mellor, Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, Dave Thomas.
