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Just Say No to Nulls (or Refactoring Your Way to Programmer Bliss) - 38 days ago

I can't help but feel my code is getting harder and harder to read as I wade through an ever increasing number of if != null checks before finding my way to the real logic that I actually care about... God , doesn't your brain just want to shut...
Topics: emergent design, programming

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How would you like your code? Refining our Definition of "Done" - 38 days ago

Agile has a notion of defining "done." This might sound funny - how could we not know when something is done? But, as with any creative endeavor - there is "done" and then there's Done. Just try it - ask 5 different people on your.
Topics: agile, management, programming

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Agile as the Path to Happiness? - 134 days ago

This might be a sign that I'm working too much, but I keep finding myself making analogies between agile software development and how I want to be living my life. As strange as it sounds, I think it stems from how crazy life can be and how agile...
Topics: agile

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Your Unit Tests Should Mind Their Own Business - 142 days ago

As the unit testing debates continue on my project, I can't help but noticing that people are spending all sorts of time pontificating over the right way to unit test, without stepping back to consider what they're trying to achieve with unit...
Topics: agile, emergent design, unit testing

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That Agile Stuff Will Never Work - 143 days ago

I was in Washington DC this week for 3 days of Scrum training with Mike Cohn , who conveniently held the class about 10 minutes from my parent's house, so I wound up staying with them. Now, my Dad has been programming since the 1960's and while...
Topics: agile

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