Software Development
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The true cost of technical debt
Whether you like to think of it as technical debt or an unhedged call option we’re all surrounded by bad…
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Tech Leads & The Progress Principle
I’ve been reading The Progress Principle on and off for the last couple of months and one of my favourite…
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Refactoring Switches to Classes
I’ve talked about refactoring switch statements several times before. Switch is Just a Fancy If Else Pulling out the Switch:…
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Where is the Science in Software Development?
Lots of stuff in software development has some really solid scientific foundation. Relational databases for example are based on Relational…
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Analysis of software developer’s competency – Choosing a right team member
In this post I shall try to explain an approach for estimating developer’s skills. The approach is still as a…
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Measuring Code
How good is your code? If you’re like the other 80% of above average developers, then I bet your code…
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The Lean Startup: Book Review
I’d heard about The Lean Startup for a long time before I actually read it, mainly from following the ‘Startup…
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Unit Tests: Searching under the Lamp Post
I’m a big fan of unit tests (Surprise). When ever possible I practice TDD. I like how that approach coerces…
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Re-inventing the Object
I have spent some years now working as a software architect. There were couple of rather large projects, in both…
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How much architecture is enough?
Software architecture is hard. Creating a simple, consistent, flexible environment in which we can solve the customer’s ever-changing problems is…
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