Being Cellfish

I bet your answer to this question is; by giving a good tip . So what do you do if the service was bad? Here I predict two different answers, either you don't give a tip or you complain to the management of the restaurant. If don't tip I bet you leave Read More...

The Pugh decision matrix is a is a tool to help you make decisions when you're trying to sort out what alternative is the best but they all have their pros and cons. It can also be used to help a group decide on a decision. The way it works is that you Read More...

One good tip for writing good SQL code is to always select the columns you need and never just select everything. Well here is a description on how to actually prevent SELECT * queries (you need to complete a free registration to see the article). The Read More...

This time we did a new Kata - variant of poker hands . Instead of being so specific about the interface the user story we used for the Kata was simply; Given two five card hands I want to know which hand is the winner . We also choose to use the object Read More...

Today I got that feeling of how the use of one word, interpreted differently by different people result in misunderstandings. It was when I read this which IMHO is full of misunderstandings (including some of the comments). One example is that refactorings Read More...

It was some time since I last needed to use P/Invoke but it seems like I always need something from a standard C DLL or the Win32 API. Not that I needed it today, but I stumbled across this site which I will remember for future reference. Looks very helpful Read More...