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March 2009 - Posts

Becoming a good programmer takes time

By now you've hopefully heard about craftsmanship over crap and the other day I heard about a research report where they concluded that university students majoring in engineering have problems translating theory into practice ( article in Swedish ). Read More...
Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 9:24 PM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Another set of evolving tests

Yesterday I stumbled across this example of how unit tests can be rewritten in different ways . The only thing I'm missing in the final version is reporting the values in the checkOneValue and stackSizeShouldBe methods. I'm assuming the report method Read More...
Posted Friday, March 27, 2009 6:20 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Operations Manager 2007 R2 Release Candidate now released

So it has been almost a year since our little project was announced and the first public beta released . Today the release candidate was made available for everyone on MS Connect (you need to register and sign up to download the RC ). There are a lot Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 8:00 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Continuous integration and gated check-ins

Continuous integration (CI) is generally considered a good thing. And there are some hard facts out there . And I agree that it is hard to find a situation where CI does not add value. I guess the only case where you would opt to not use CI is when the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:25 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Code Stewardship

The other day I learned a new word. I've heard about code owner ship and collective code ownership before but I've never heard of code stewardship before so I looked it up. At first glance I think code stewardship sounds very much like code ownership. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 23, 2009 3:23 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments

When is it time for a complete rewrite?

I've been involved in several projects where almost everybody screamed " we need to rewrite everything " and actually taken part in a few projects where software was rewritten from scratch. And a few times it actually turned out fine. Which made me think Read More...
Posted Saturday, March 21, 2009 3:21 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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The amazing auto woman

For the first time in my life I've bought a car without the feeling of getting ripped off by the car dealer. I'm not particulary interested in cars and especially not in how they work and what makes a car better than another. I select car purly on feeling. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:45 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Getting a drivers license in the US

Getting a drivers license in the US is not the same thing as in Sweden. First of all the booklet you can read to study is much shorter. At least in state Washington. The written test is 25 multiple choice questions and you need 20 correct answers. Since Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:45 PM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Agile workspace - part 3

Hopefully you've seen the fancy and budget version of agile workspace I've talked about earlier. If you'd rather read something, then I suggest you read Mike Cohn's list of items in an ideal workspace . Actually you should read that post under any circumstances. Read More...
Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 7:21 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Refactoring finds dead code

It is always nice to read/listen to a good story. And since refactoring is very important to you if you use BDD/TDD I suggest you read this story to further fuel your refactoring enthusiasm. This also touches the subject of having no ands or ors in your Read More...
Posted Friday, March 06, 2009 3:06 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Design by contract in real life

Today I got a sweet reminder on developing with contracts when I read this (in Swedish). I always get a warm feeling in my body when I think about design by contract (which I have earlier mentioned here ). A summary of the Swedish post is that Microsoft Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:10 PM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Mobile phone costs in the US

So today I finally got my mobile phone service set up. And how mobile services are billed in the US is quite different than how it works in Sweden. The basic rule in Sweden is that if you do not make the call, you don't pay. That is, you pay nothing to Read More...
Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 9:21 PM by cellfish | 3 Comments
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