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Essays from September 2008
7 essays from September 2008
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Apple on unfair claims in advertising
Part of being a cool company is that you respect your customers. This is not a show of respect by Apple. Seriously, this is just used car salesman tactics. Apple, shape up!
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Continuous integration requires a good SCM
Lately I’ve been discussing SCM (Source Control Management) systems and how that impacts the continuous integration efforts of the teams and the projects where they work. I could not have expressed this better than Dean Wampler, check his blog post out.
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The cost of un-fixed bugs or Good Code on top of Bad Code
While discussing with a colleague we started talking about the costs related to not fixing a bug immediately (yes, this does mean that you have a way to immediately figure out if you introduced a bug). The reason for fixing bugs immediately is not only the cost of content switching later on when you have …
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The hard reality of life as developer…
If any of this is familiar, then you should really be reading this blog! 🙂 Hug a developer today. Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Testers are developers! Stop breaking them apart
First one clarification. Testing is needed, required, critical and very much a MUST. With that out of the way let’s go to the post. Many people have mentioned the need to include testers in Scrum or agile, and planning your processes with a testing step somewhere (normally close to the end). All of these ideas …
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Learn or else…
Through Elisabeth Hendrickson I got to Brett Pettichord’s post about the role of feedback in Agile. Read it if you haven’t yet. Here are the pearls that made me post this: “If you don’t have meaningful feedback then you’re not agile. You’re just in a new form of chaos.” and “Agile practices build a technical …
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You are not ready for agile if…
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. Who am I kidding, I don’t have the time right now, so I’ll let Andy do the talking: You’re not ready for agile if you: * behave territorially. You mark your territory like an aggressive dog, refusing to share power or information, …
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