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Oren , as he often does, hits the nail bang on with his latest post Cuddling is consider harmful . Development is hard, and getting harder all the time. For every new framework that comes out to simplifying the complexity of the code we write, another...
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Tao is often referred to as 'the nameless', because neither it nor its principles can ever be adequately expressed in words. It is conceived, for example, with neither shape nor form, as simultaneously perfectly still and constantly moving, as...
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Brad Wilson mentioned on the TDD mailing list that the waste and inefficiency within the software industry was akin to the house building industry. I'm sure in some respects he is right, but in a more fundamental way I disagree. An average layman...
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Troy mentioned in a comment on my previous post on ASP.NET MVC and Agile that I must be in a rare company, or I must be a lucky or persuasive man. There is certainly an aspect of truth to both those observations. It is certainly nothing out of the ordinary...
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I recently got brought on board to a new client where, true to form, a project was in a state of failure - everybody sort of knew it, but nobody would say it out loud. What Was Going Wrong? After my initial assessment, I made a quick decision that the...
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Instead of repeating amongst us why the Entity Framework concerns us, an open letter has been written to hopefully persuade Microsoft to reconsider the Entity Framework, or at least some major aspects of it. To save me repeating it, here is what Dave...
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I am a bit of a SciFi geek. There ... I have admitted it. No, not one of those weird SciFi fans that turns up at Trekkie or Trekker conventions (does knowing there are two terms make me an even worse geek???). On the whole, when it comes to modern SciFi...
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Roy makes a number of accusations about the Alt.net community, particularly centred around their espoused ideals clashing with their comments and blogs. I respect Roy greatly, his blog was one of my first real sources for great TDD information, and he...
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Code quality is an abstract concept again, and can be defined may ways depending on how you perceive quality. A good discussion of the many aspects of code quality can be found on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_quality Some general...
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Industry experience suggests that the design of metrics will encourage certain kinds of behaviour from the people being measured. The common phrase applied is "you get what you measure" (or "be careful what you wish for"). A Brief...
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Some reports will highlight lines of code as a figure to attach some relevance to, and these become measures used to establish progress. These are possibly the most misleading figures to use, in fact almost always within a well designed application and...
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"Working software is the primary measure of progress" Fundamentally, there is no more valid measure for progress, than the working software itself. This only leaves open to discussion, the definition of "working software". Defining...
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I got an email at the end of last week from a developer asking about Agile development. It highlights a few problems with development in general, and with Agile as a "badge of honour" that are worth exploring. It deserved a fairly detailed reply...
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Prompted partially by some comments yesterday on my post on How to Make Late Software, Even Later , and partially by a discussion on the altdotnet Yahoo list, I wrote this long email. As it became an epic in its own right, I thought it deserved a blog...
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I'll start by quoting Brooks Law , as no doubt you expect me to: Brooks's law is a principle in software development which says that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" . It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975...
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