Tag: development
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Less is more, more or less
Posted by Simon Baker
CSS! Just the name elicits groans from the backend developer bench. Googling "css sucks" brings a back a wealth of comedy in about 10,100,000 results. Cascading as in a neutron fission reaction. Style as in every project does it differently. Sheet as in: "Shhhiit that didn’t do what I expected".
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009
What is it about technical discussions and weeds?
Posted by Simon Baker
It's tough to prevent technical discussions getting lost in the weeds. Actually, it's the people involved who get lost in the weeds.
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Sunday, 17 August 2008
The natural laws of software development
Posted by Simon Baker
At Agile2008, I watched Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson talk about the natural laws of software development.
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Saturday, 17 December 2005
Slop and slack
Posted by Simon Baker
Michael Feathers identified iteration slop as the time spent before an iteration, preparing for it, and the time spent after an iteration, finalizing the work.
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005
Rules for simplicity
Posted by Simon Baker
David Crow writes about rules for simplicity. I like number 10:
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Monday, 12 December 2005
How not to do it: Agile development, Microsoft-style
Posted by Simon Baker
Randy Miller at Microsoft writes about his experiences with agile development.
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Thursday, 8 December 2005
Write production-ready code faster with TDD
Posted by Simon Baker
It takes time to become proficient at test driven development. But it's worth the investment. I'm not convinced it makes writing code faster because, after all, it does require you to write more code for the unit tests. However, I am convinced it makes writing production-ready code faster.
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Friday, 18 November 2005
Article in The Guardian: Simple steps to making better software
Posted by Simon Baker
The Guardian has written about simple steps to making better software. The only thing to take from this article is that "there is no magic bullet to making software work".
Wednesday, 10 August 2005
Kent Beck on developer testing
Posted by Simon Baker
The presentation was recorded at the Developer Testing Forum in 2004. Kent talks about how the developer tests produced by test-driven development directly contribute to the health of software, and how they can give a developer a sense of accountability without apportioning blame.
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Sunday, 29 May 2005
What makes a good software developer?
Posted by Simon Baker
Yesterday I was asked what do you think makes a good software developer? I think my answer surprised the person asking the question. It went something like this:
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