ADC2011 is over, and I had a mighty fun time. Like I open my talks, I’d like to speak first on my favorite subject: me. I had two talks, one on unit testing SharePoint applications, and the other about tools for identifying issues in multithreaded apps (slides below). I can tell you that all those
It’s been a few weeks now, for my tenure as product manager at Typemock. Time for a review. What did I learn of becoming the product owner in an agile company? Get yourself a good coach. That may be true for every profession, but especially for the newly initiated, it’s a blessing if you can
Time for another thing that works. I’ve written about my amazing ability to juggle things, and how I can mostly manage it. And whenever pressure rises, and tasks are in abundance, I begin thinking about stuff. What else do I have to do? What am I missing? What do I need to do first when
I’m very excited about this. I’ll be presenting at the Advanced Developers Conference 2011, Munich, Germany. Check out the schedule on the site. I’ll be giving two presentations: The first one about unit testing SharePoint applications, and the second one about techniques for multithreaded software. Also, I’m planning to attend a .NET Coding Dojo Group
It was a great night of new matrix films, dynamic languages, general geekery and definitely good eats. Uncle Bob Martin, Brett Shuchert, and a bunch of Israeli craftsmen (I’m still on probation due to my latest posts) sat, ate, drank and had a fine night. Guys, thanks for a great evening, and I hope
In my last post, I warned against the dangers of the craftsmanship movement to itself. The main premise behind this warning is that business and developers don’t speak the same language. And since business has the upper hand, role power, money – business always wins. Martin Fowler’s post, Craftsmanship and the Crevasse, looks at the
I’ve gone from Michael Feathers’ post to Dan North’s post and then to Jason Gorman’s. If I need to choose a side, I’m definitely on Dan North’s side. As I was reading these posts,they seemed familiar. The holy wars and the calls to stop them, the call to better developers to separate themselves from the
In the last few weeks, we were hit by the flu. Many (including myself) have fallen before the mighty bug. Even after coming back from their sick bed, people have gone off for a second or even a third round. And lost. And the few that remained on their feet, need to carry on with
Apparently, I’ve become addicted to my task list. My latest “things that work” to juggle tasks works great. Except when it doesn’t. When’s that? Weekends. I took precautions to have the ability to write down tasks when I’m away from my computer. But, I still manage to think about things to do when I’m not
Something strange is going through TDD land these last couple of weeks. First it was Uncle Bob,with a new TDD theory – making tests pass in a certain order, actually helps incremental design, leading to a better solution. This is a very interesting post, and if he’s right, he might have discovered the cornerstone of