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Frankensystems, Half-Strangled Zombies and other Monsters
There are lots of ugly things that can happen to a system over time. This is what the arguments over technical debt are all about – how to keep code from getting ugly and fragile ...
What If We … Like We Hire Programmers – What Questions Are Appropriate?
Programmers often experience a high degree of frustration during the interview process, and one primary source of annoyance is how the programmer perceives the line of questioning or ...
Quick Summary : Object Associations
Composition final class Company{ private final Employee Employee; { Company(EmpDetails ...
Towards a Theory of Test-Driven Development
This post examines how well we really understand the practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD). Red, Green, Refactor By ...
Dev vs QA, should there really be a distinction?
We had our scrum of scrum meetings last Wednesday where all scrum masters meet up with our line manager to discuss issues, bottlenecks and success stories of our previous sprint. One ...
The Sprinting Centipede Strategy: How to Improve Software Without Breaking It
Our code has been broken for weeks. Compiler errors, failing tests, incorrect behavior plagued our team. Why? Because we have been struck by a Blind Frog Leap. By doing multiple concurrent ...
Seven Tips For Using Third-Party Libraries
There are many good reasons to use code written by others in your application. This post describes some best practices to optimize your re-use experience. Library ...
TDD Vs. math formalism: friend or foe?
It is not uncommon to oppose the empirical process of TDD, together with its heavy use of unit tests, to the more mathematically based techniques, with the »formal methods » and formal ...
Good Developer, Bad Developer
I recently read Ben Horowitz’s piece on the importance of training people in startup companies. At the end of this article he put together a document “Good Product Manager, Bad ...
Data Warehouse Design Approaches
In our previous posts we have got to learn about Data Warehousing Objects, different kinds of Data Warehouse schemas and Data Warehouse Basics. Now it time we learn about how to build ...
