If I think back a number of years, I can remember sitting in a software shop and feeling like the iconic stranger in a strange land. I valued writing clean code, practicing TDD, refactoring away from procedural, legacy cruft, and generally improving my craft. This was not otherwise common. There were architects in that place…
I think this is about to get weird, but bear with me, if you’re so inclined. This is going to be another one of those posts in which I try to explain myself by way of a vague apology for my abnormality. But maybe if enough of you are similarly abnormal, it’ll gain a little…
This comic from The Oatmeal is one of my favorite pieces of internet. That’s true for a variety of reasons, but one of them is how he explains that it’s much easier to be told what to write than to be given the instructions, “write about whatever you want.” He’s not alone in feeling this…
This episode featured a return to progress toward shippable features. I refactored the first feature that I’d started to use the new, idiomatic Specflow approach. This resulted in it making the most sense to have this be the feature for pawn movement and thus progress toward implementing the pawn’s movement as well as shaking out…
Happy Friday, all. A while back, I announced some changes to the blog, including a partnership with Infragistics, who sponsors me. Part of my arrangement with them and with a few other outfits (stay tuned for those announcements) is that I now write blog posts for them. Between writing posts for this blog, writing posts…
