Effective Customer Consultant Relationships
As a customer, how can you get the most out of your consultants? As a consultant, how can you deliver what your customers really want?...more.
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I got an interesting email yesterday. It contained the following paragraph describing an email he had sent to his co-workers about a refactoring...more.
8 Things You Ought to Know If You Do Not Know Anything About Hiring A Software Developer
“The one absolutely solid place to store your capital today — if you know how to do it – is in software developers’ wallets.”
...is...more.
The Letter
We need to become a self-regulating and self-policing profession. The stakes are simply too high to allow software to remain in the current ad-hoc limbo...more.
Flipping the Bit
There’s a bit you need to flip in your head. It’s just one bit. In this blog we’ll call it “THE BIT”. Some...more.
Hello iOS Development
When first getting started with iOS development, there were very little resources to get up and started. And with the strict NDA Apple had...more.
Fixed Feature
Time and materials vs. fixed bid is the classic duo of billing models in software services business. Time and materials puts all the pressure...more.
The Barbarians are at the Gates
There’s a revolution coming. I wonder if anyone has noticed. It’s not subtle. It won’t be sublime, or easy to integrate. Indeed, it’ll probably muck...more.
Mind Your Own Business Rails
Putting extensive business logic in Rails controllers is bad and you should stop doing it.
I suppose I should demonstrate why that's true with...more.
Doing a Good Job
What is our job, and how can we do it better?
For a while, I've wanted to write a blog about what it means...more.
Why I Pair Program
Recently, I was pairing with Steven. We were wrapping up work on a feature. While reviewing our changes and running our acceptance test...more.
Software Craftsmanship Manifesto? Duh!
"The Manifest for Software Craftsmanship is obvious!" "How could you not agree with it?" "Duh!"
SCNA: Why Salespeople should attend!
The 2011 SCNA (Software Craftsmanship North America) conference concluded just a few days ago, and there was a large audience...more.
Three Reasons To Roll Your Own Mocks
I've spent the last several months writing my own mock objects, but for the code I'm currently working on, we were mostly using RSpec's built...more.
Clean Architecture
In the weeks since I started talking about the need to clean up our architecture, I’ve noticed a surprising resistance to the idea. Apparently the...more.
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