First: Principles

The time between a defect being entered and being found is related to the expense of fixing it Graphing the number of tests over time would ...

"Free as in Freedom" "Free as in Beer" http://opensource.org/ Q: Don't people resent when companies take open source...

Don't aggravate customers with annoying surveys! Make sure to ask "Is there anything else?" Several stories about bad feedback...

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Doing code reviews? That's good! Code reviews are a big help. They ensure uniformity of code, teach people new design patterns, and ofte...

"Reverse" model - take the business case of the system and work down to threats. A threat is not a vulnerability. A threat is wha...

This comes from a really good session by Gerard Meszaros on Test Patterns at SD Best Practices 2007. Here's my history on test-driven de...

Here are my initial notes on the Jutta Eckstein presentation on scaling agile development across large teams. Cleanup may follow :) Scrum of...

The comments on Harish's blog entry from two years ago give a lot of different solutions to the 'Could not load type "Global...

Dietrich Kappe writes on the Agile Ajax blog on surmounting the difficulties of pair programming when part of your team is offshore. Inte...

Wow, Amy Makice is stressing me out with her story of a second-grader stressed out in the first two weeks of class. I'm looking forwa...

Educator Christian Long writes on using Wikis in the classroom . I'm not an educator, and my kid isn't one of Mr. Long's studen...

Lots of interesting stuff going on in the Bloomington scene this week. James Boyd, who I've written about before , sat down to watch an...

Dare writes on Open Social Networks . One thing he doesn't bring up, though, is the existence of specialized social networks and how th...

Check out Eric Sink's blog for a nice, and almost free, T-shirt. Eric runs SourceGear , a version control company, which I'm sure i...

Boy, doesn't this stink ? (Thanks, Vorlath ). As a rule, I don't like commenting on outrageous stuff; yes, it's outrageous, ye...

Ed Gibbs, one of my favorite bloggers, writes on the usefulness of javadoc comments . (I meant to write on Alfred Thompson's thoughts ...

Brandon McMillon writes on doing it right . (Thanks to Alfred Thompson for the link.) He doesn't touch on the agile side of software ...

Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 writes about newspapers jacking up their blog count . I think the thing that most people are missing when it co...

Here are my comments on Joel's comments on Dave Winer's comments concerning comments. I think Dave is dead-on, but the whole issu...