At a lunch recently, I talked with some architects/developers who were a bit concerned about a decision made by the managers and (powerpoint-)architects at their company. The company had decided to go with a middle-ware/database solution from a vendor which I will allow to remain anonymous (let’s just say it’s a very large company who [...]
When I talked to Michael Feathers about why constraints are good, he also mentioned an example of where he thought things were going wrong. Some people who use test-driven development, also use tools that allow the to peek into classes and read private variables. That is an efficient way to ensure that some method altered [...]
This started out as a comment on a Michael Hyatt blog post on the use of social media for marketing vs relationship building. Michael responded to my comment saying, Wow. That a blog post in itself—and a great warning to all us who are tempted to “go pro.” So, consider yourselves warned, everyone. (Now, that [...]
In a conversation with Michael Feathers at SDC2010, he mentioned something which I found very interesting. It was a very simple statement. Constraints are good. To me, that statement sounded rather odd. Constraints is a negative word to me, so intuitively I want to remove constraints. Thus, I asked him to clarify. And here’s what [...]