July 2009
10 posts
“Providing your aims are to do the right thing I think challenging the status quo...”
– Get beyond the Now and into the Potential by Simon Baker
“Sometimes they’d advocate for doing their work on a separate branch, and only...”
– Continuous deployment
“Software and the capital efficiency enabled by the web and the cloud provide the...”
– Every Project is a Startup by Kent Beck.
“Strict control is something that matters a lot on relatively useless projects...”
– Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone by Tom DeMarco.
“First, refactoring needs to be refactoring, not revision. By that I mean that...”
– 6 Steps To Refactoring Rails (for Mere Mortals) | Engine Yard Blog
“I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference...”
– Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake by Tony Hoare
“Chapter 1, Page 7: The First Step in Refactoring: Whenever I do refactoring, the...”
– From Martin Fowler’s Refactoring book via Forgotten Refactorings
“Agile’s early emphasis on self-organizing teams caused some to brand it...”
– AR⊗TA - Artisanal Retro-Futurism crossed with Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism
“So now we have the worst of both the Agile and plan-driven worlds: the business...”
– DanNorth.net » The perils of estimation
“The probability that you will change a piece of code in the near future...”
– Joakim Karlsson › The Locality of Code Changes