First: Principles

I really don't care that much for Facebook . I don't watch enough movies to take the little quizzes, and I'm not really all that...

Jeff Atwood over at Coding Horror is asking for comments on the relative efficiency of these processes. We do both at my company, and while ...

So on my basketball fan page, HoosierBall , I was working on the schedule display. I had originally set up a simple widget from Zvents, but ...

More of my writeup on the XUnit session I went to nearly two months ago. I hope someday to make all of my note-taking blog entries coherent ...

Boy, don't you hate it when the request could not be submitted for background processing? I know I do. This is a rather inexplicable err...

Michael Gartenberg is still not twittering , poor unenlightened soul. He prefers to use Facebook for his minute-to-minute status, and doesn...

I copied the link up there from the Facebook event page...I have no idea what it will tell you if you're not a member, or even if the li...

Big room has no wifi; smaller room seems to work pretty well. I feel very blind without a net connection. Have I said that before? :) Sessio...

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...