The blogosphere has gone a bit crazy the last few days with posts responding to Joel Spolsky’s latest article about "The Duct Tape Programmer" . Bloggers everywhere are tossing their two cents in and saying what parts of Joel's post was good and what wasn't good. Once noticeable trend...
Joel , in his inimitable way, posted the flame bait of all flame bait posts yesterday , explaining the role of the Duct Tape Programmer. To my surprise, the Twitterverse started to reverberate with commentary, but weirdly, almost all of it was very negative about the post, many claiming that Joel was...
I'm currently looking at a code base that could do with some refactoring, overall it's a pretty good code base, and the test coverage is pretty good too. But looking through it gave me some ideas on what makes a code base tricky to safely refactor. Here are some tips to make sure your code is...
Several months ago I published a letter to upper management about improving software processes . In that post I laid out what our team needed to do to be more effective at our jobs. Since that letter nearly five months ago, I have been promoted to management myself and now manage the team. While...
Over the last few years my blog has been filled with posts imploring testing and sharing techniques about testing. Most recently I’ve been speaking at code camps on how one can begin unit testing, sensing that a large majority of people out there don’t yet have the level of comfort with testing...