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May 2009 - Posts

Is BDD/TDD and pair programming a waste of time?

As usual the answer is it depends . If you insist on looking at short term effects of TDD for example there is no doubt in my mind it is a waste of time. Why deliver great software in six months when you can deliver decent software in four months? Personally Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:45 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Feeling awkward when writing tests?

I recently observed a discussion where one person hesitated to add new dependencies to one class since it meant all calls to the constructor had to be changed. At first glance this only looks as if the person was very strict about constructor dependency Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:27 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Released

So finally it has been released. SCOM 2007 R2 where one of new big features is monitoring Unix/Linux computers (which happens to be what I'm been working on for the last two years). There is an evaluation copy available here . More community resources Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 23, 2009 2:22 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Yet another TDD tutorial

I found this nice TDD tutorial . So if you have 30 minutes to kill I suggest you take a look at it. There are definitely a few golden nuggets even if you 're already a convinced TDD practitioner. For example calculating expected values in the tests rather Read More...
Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 5:22 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Team Coding Dojo 2

Today was our team's second dojo. As the first time we did the MineSweeper kata . We basically did the same thing as we did in the last FTE dojo (FTE is MicroSpeak for Full Time Employee ). That is we had a longer design session, focused on one part at Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:00 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Reusing functions in PowerShell

One thing that struck me as kind of odd when I first started to look at PowerShell and how to include other script files in order to gain access to functions in that other script is that all examples I found use an absolute path to include scripts (ex: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:20 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Agile contracts

If you're negotiating with a customer over a contract for something and you want to be agile I think one of your hardest problems probably is to convince the customer of the value of an agile development process. Because you don't really want to be negotiating Read More...
Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 8:45 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Mounting a file system to an FTP server

I recently needed to move all my private domains to a new hosting solution and the new solution did not allow any other access than FTP. I considered setting up a mirror on my ubuntu host at home but that didn't feel like the best solution. So I thought Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 8:20 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Coding Dojo 1

Since I moved to Redmond I've been looking for a regular coding dojo in this area but I've not been able to find one. So I first planned a number of team dojos in my team but I felt that was not enough. I think an important part of each dojo session is Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:45 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Fun introduction to F#

There is a very funny introduction to F# available here . So if you want an introduction to F# and/or a few laughs you should watch it. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:49 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Consultant Bestiary

If you liked the more or less humorus Scrum Bestiary then you might like the Consultant Bestiary . Personally I've been a duck most of the time I worked as a consultant but sometimes a was seal. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 12:50 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments

What is a good variable name?

You've probably heard a thousand times that a good variable name describes what it is. Some people also thinks that the shorter the scope of the variable, the shorter should the name be. That was maybe true if you write the name out by hand but I think Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:06 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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SQL Unit Testing

Thought it was time to combine my old favorite subject (SQL) with a new interest (TDD). So how do you test drive your SQL? I think the first answer is you don't . The database is typically something you want to fake anyway since setting up and accessing Read More...
Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 8:05 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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