"if you stay ready, you never have to get ready" - Jai www.linkedin.com/video/live/u...
Many organizations state they want to make sure they’re building a product their users want, but all too often arbitrary deadlines and the fear of not making a…
Just a quick reminder: Two concepts may be orthogonal. If they are mutually exclusive then they are not orthogonal - that is "negatively correlated" instead.
TDD: You're doing it wrong... and it's probably NOT your fault. John digs in. www.industriallogic.com/blog/tdd-you...
Why you may be struggling with TDD
A lot of people feel that late deliveries, poor code quality, big merge conflicts, and lots of bugs is a good tradeoff because it saves them from working in teams and writing tests.
Tell me about your process. No, not your "agile framework" or your KPIs or how you write and process tickets. I mean your at-the-keyboard creative, disciplined programming process. What do you do that keeps your coding safe, reliable, quick, and correct?
"What's the best part of being a telepath?" "Sometimes people think nasty, prejudiced things-" "That's the best part?" "No, the best part is that many will realise when a thought was horrible, and correct themselves." "And that's the best part?" "Yes. People try to be better."
It makes me crazy to read an article with a title about "agile" <whatever> and when you read the article, it's entirely focused on scrum, scrum behaviors, and scrum roles. Look, if you're writing about scrum write about scrum. If you're writing about agile stuff, don't just write about scrum.
What is your best advice to fellow programmers on readability, and what makes it good advice?
If I’m involved in a task and it’s not completed yet, then people may want to talk to me about it or ask questions. The more work I have in progress and incomplete, the more reasons people have to talk to me. www.industriallogic.com/blog/managin...
It’s frustrating to be constantly interrupted. Why is it like this, and what can we do about it?
What makes one expression of a programming idea more "readable" than another? It does seem that 90% of preference here is familiarity. But what drives familiarity? Why are some idioms more commonly shared and understood?