Monthly Archives: November 2007

A Mind of Its Own

I’m reading the book “A Mind of Its Own”, by Cordelia Fine. I sometimes find it hard to make headway with this kind of material and put it down after the first couple of chapters, but for whatever reason this … Continue reading

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Bug Driven Development: a danger of delivering the pretty GUIs first

After my last post, Negin and I were quite pleased that we’d got as far as we had. So was our Business Analyst. “So, this story that was estimated at 3 days,” she said. “Can I say it’s only taken … Continue reading

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BDD: Bug Driven Development

Today, Negin and I paired on a brand new piece of work. “We’ll need to create this domain object,” she said, “and a database table.” “I don’t want to do that,” I said. “I’d rather fix the stuff that’s broken.” … Continue reading

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Crazy like a fox.

At my current client, everyone loves BDD, and everyone starts their tests with the word ‘should’, describing the behaviour of the associated class. I’m currently looking at this code: public class PrimaryMixingIteratorTest extends EasyMockObjectTestBase{ public void testShouldIterateLikeAFox() throws Exception { … Continue reading

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When do I refactor code?

This question has kicked around a bit at Thoughtworks lately, sparked by this article: http://blogs.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2007/11/01/technical-debt-2.aspx. I thought I’d blog what I do, since a few bits of feedback lead me to believe I might be good at it. I don’t … Continue reading

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Lotus Notes: Making mail quotas meaningless

There are at least three good reasons why we’re using Lotus Notes, so mostly this post is just here to make me feel better. Thank you for sharing my pain; please comment with any solutions you’ve found for this problem. … Continue reading

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