May 2008 - Posts
Hello faithful readers! A small announcement: I have decided that with the summer months approaching here in the Pacific Northwest I am going to decrease the frequency of blog posts for a while to once every two weeks (biweekly). The reasons are several:
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Summary Motley: Bug fix sprints are a Scrum anti-pattern. Quality should be kept high so as not to have to focus on bug fixing. Maven: A clear meaning of done for sprint tasks is important, but even if you follow this best practice, there will always
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Summary Motley: OneNote is just like Microsoft Word, and is not a place where a developer should be spending time. Maven: OneNote is perfectly suited to feature teams and developers. It provides simple, organized, efficient, and easy to manage method
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Summary Motley: Too many assertions make debugging very annoying! Maven: Lots of assertions are great, as long as they validate the right assumptions. If an assertion fires it is likely manifested by a bug, so get to the root cause and fix it. Best practices
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Unfortunately, life got in the way this week and I didn't have time to put together a decent blog entry. Sincere apologies. I'll do my best to have Maven and Motley back next week with their zany adventures in software engineering. If you have suggestions
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