Ye Pirates of Unit Testing
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International Talk Like a Pirate Day is one of the few holidays that I respect. As a result…ye scurvy dogs…this is what pirates would have said about The Zen of Unit Testing:
Yarr! The pirate asked the captain:
“Ye landlubbers! When can I stop writing tests? arrrr…”
The captain answered me mateys:
“When you stop writing […]
7 Ways To Piss Me Off and Not Buy Your Software
Filed Under Human Factors | 8 Comments
Holy shit, I had the worst day of software support ever. Perhaps it can be blamed on Monday, perhaps the rain, but if you are in the business of selling software you can’t afford to snub your customers when it comes to sales or support. Here are 7 surefire ways to piss […]
Bizzaro Development
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The more the software discipline evolves, the more humor I find in the fact that our practices seem to start contradicting older practices which seem natural and intuitive. Let me explain…
I had an interesting read called - Test Developers Shouldn’t Execute Tests. Long story short, the idea is test developers shouldn’t waste time […]
A Twitter Tribute
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Not as cute as the Twitter server kitty, but what the hell, I am feeling lazy today and have had this image rotting in my head since I started Happy Numbers.
Does Gaining Experience Lower Your Software Quality?
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Great software developers have inevitably learned from previous failures. Is the cost of lessons learned always the implicit lowering of project quality?
As Steven Wright said:
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
It is true that you can learn from books, blogs, and colleagues without impacting your current project, […]
Rearranging Furniture for an Unfocused Client
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Unfocused clients can wreak havoc on your project primarily because they monopolize time attempting to figure out what they desire. Time spent giving professional advice is never wasted, but doomed projects will waste budget by allowing the client to manipulate details back and forth until all options are exhausted.
Have you ever been in this client […]
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