I was asked this question last Wednesday, when I led a TDD open session at the Israeli Software Craftsmanship User Group. My answer: It makes you think before you write code. In fact, next time somebody asks you what TDD stands for, you answer: Thinking-Driven Development. Sure, all the benefits are there: structured incremental progress,
It will be for me.This Wednesday, December 15th, I’m going to be a bit busy. 3pm Israel time, that’s 2pm CET, and 8am EST I’m giving a webinar about steps you can take right now toward agile. I really like to learn real world actionable stuff, and this webinar is where I’m giving back. Do
Let’s take a look at the agile manifesto. It starts with: “We are uncovering better ways of developingsoftware” Next are the values. I’m not going to bother with the “right” side, which is of course the “dark side”. On the left we have: Individuals and interactions Working software Customer collaboration Responding to change All this
Yesterday I went to Agile Tour Israel. At the end of the day I was surprised, I didn’t think I’d enjoy it that much. Once again, being pessimistic saved the day! The event organizers did all they could to push agile and show it as mainstream. Cynical as I am, I was surprised to see
The answer is yes. Microsoft is killing off Silverlight. Don’t underestimate the truth said in the PDC keynote: Microsoft is going the HTML5 way. But this is not a review of the he said/she said MS is playing for the last week. It’s about the risks associated with selecting a technology, or making an architecture
Every alt.net meeting is exciting for me. This time it was the 4th one since we started doing this three years ago in Israel. The final discussion we had was how to get more people into alt.net. Here are a few points that came up during the discussion. The numbers of people coming really doesn’t
Some people think that by blaming Microsoft, I’ve removed the responsibility of self development from the developers themselves. These are two separate things.Developers who want to expand their horizon, enhance their craftsmanship, will find ways to do that. And because there are so many sources, they will probably not get it just from Microsoft.But we
After the LIDNUG presentation, we stayed online to discuss unit testing experiences. A couple of things stayed with me from that talk. One: we’re (we developers) are obsessed with tooling and technology (you didn’t expect hard news here, right?). Our main focus should be about solving the business problem first. But, us geeks, we like
Last week I gave my “unit testing in the wild” presentation on LIDNUG. It was nice, and once the recording is up I’ll get all the info. But I wanted to talk about the experience. First of all: people, I’ve hit the jackpot. I’ve hit on one of the best ways to extract gold out
Running the panel at the Typemock Academy was a great experience for me. (Read: I’ve got loads to learn about running a panel). We wanted to make things interesting, and picked a topic that at its heart not so controversial. But when you dig in, it really exposes a problem: If unit testing has been