It’s easy to wince when someone uses the term “resource” to describe a human being. At least, it is until you’re desensitized to the word being thrown around in a business context. After that, I think it’s a subtle form of signaling. But I’ll get back to that in a minute. Let’s do a thought exercise,…
I originally wrote this post for the NDepend blog where I’m doing a whole series on this. Go check out all of the posts over there — we’re doing some cool stuff. A while back, I made a post on my blog announcing the commencement of a series on building a better, composite code metric. Well, it’s…
One of my absolute favorite all time tools is Trello, which is essentially a web application that digitizes the kanban board. As a Trello user, you have one or more boards, and each board can have one or more columns. In each column, there are cards. And, like a live kanban board, you can move…
This episode followed right on the heels of Chess TDD 44, in terms of the coding, and was basically a session extending that episode. It wasn’t always pretty, but I made more progress on solving this edge case. I’m in the midst of a pretty brutal stretch of travel, and then my wedding and honeymoon…
Rest assured, there is a list of tricks that you can use in meetings later in this post. But, before you get to the buzzfeed portion, please indulge me for a few paragraphs that will help determine whether you’re the sort of person that really wants to take this advice. A while back, I took…
