I was listening to the Smart Passive Income podcast the other night. Yeah, I wasn’t kidding. I’m really trying to figure out how to do this stuff. Anyway, it was an episode with “User Stories” in the title, so I was intrigued. What I actually thought to myself was, “I’m a lot more inclined to…
En passant is going to be a fairly complicated thing to calculate, given the way I’ve implemented this thing so far. And, true to form, I only got a very thin slice going in this episode. Still, it was measurable progress and it’s good that I was able to slice thinly. What I accomplish in…
One of the things I’ve spent a good bit of time doing over the last year or so is called “Craftsmanship Coaching.” This involves going into teams and helping them adopt practices that will allow them to produce software more reliably and efficiently. Examples include writing automated unit and acceptance tests, setting up continuous integration…
A while back, I announced some changes to DaedTech with idea of moving toward a passive income model. In the time between then and now, I’ve spent a good bit of time learning about techniques for earning passive income, and I’ve learned that I’m really, really bad at it. For example, I’m often asked for…
This is a post that I originally wrote for the NDepend blog. If you haven’t already, go check it out! We’re building out some good content over there around static analysis, with lots more to follow. A lot of programmers have some idea of what static analysis is, as least superficially. If I mention the…
