In my travels, I’ve heard a lot of people embrace test driven development (TDD) and I’ve heard a lot of people say that it isn’t for them. For the most part, it’s been my experience that people who say it isn’t for them have either never really, actually done it or haven’t done it enough…
If you have a long, error-prone process, automate it. This is the essential underpinning of what we all do for a living and informs our day to day routines. Whether we’re making innovative new consumer applications, games, line of business applications, or anything else, we look at other people’s lives and say, “we can make…
Today, I’d like to make a post that’s relatively short and to the point. And it’s relatively short and to the point because what I’m going to talk about is so basic and fundamental that it won’t take long to say it. It is absolutely critical that you have nothing standing between the stuff checked…
I’ve had this partially completed post in my drafts folder for a while, and, thanks to a sort of half-hearted New Years resolution to either finish or discard really old drafts, I’m going to finish this one. I changed the title and re-did the focus a bit, since this one was a year and a…
Backstory I worked for a consulting firm for a while. We didn’t make anything particularly exciting — line of business applications and the like was about the extent of it. The billing model for clients was dead simple and resembled the way that lawyers charge; consultants had an hourly rate and we kept diligent track…
