Kent Beck is running an interesting experiment. He’s asking start ups to step up and take a chance, put their creation stories on their site, and to test it against their usual homepage. The idea behind this is that a compelling story makes visitors into customers. People make the tie between the product or service,
Last week we got (again) sensitive about things that were said in Twitterland. I’m not going to relive this, but there were two camps in the office: the one that said we need to respond, and the other said let it slide. Since I was on the second party, you’ll understand why I’m not putting
in Knetlik I presented over Skype, without seeing the audience. It was weird. But it didn’t start there. The preparation of the presentation took that into account as well. If you’re my audience, and you don’t see me, and all you’ve got to look at is a screen (and of course listen to my captivating
I try not to miss them, but the last .Net user group was about refactoring. I’ve been refactoring before I wrote unit tests, which was very courageous (and stupid). This post is a response to Gadi Meir’s post (in Hebrew) in which he states that refactoring policy should be defined by the CTO or equivalent.
Replication. It’s not just an Stargate SG1 term. A few weeks ago, I posted on the Typemock blog about introduction to isolation. It has been a while since I’ve written a technical blog. I’m exploring other media (the “Typemock TV” webcast, for one) these days. The thing is, I didn’t even plan on writing this
If this Dilbert strip causes me to move uncomfortably in my chair, instead of making me laugh, I’ve really crossed the border to marketingland…
After my webcast story post, a professional webcasting coach contacted me and asked if he can talk about the experience. We had a insightful talk yesterday. What I described, and what we do in the webcast, and it’s also true for the early webinars - was like agile development. Now in reflection, that’s what we
Recently, I’ve had a twitter conversation with Kent Beck. He mentioned that he noticed tests running slower – jumping from 1 to 6 seconds. I asked if he noticed an impact, and he said he definitely started running tests less. First of all, I take off my hat – I’m not sure I would notice
As part of my design for testability talk, I talked about how tools and languages impact testability. Then I came about Brett Schuchert’s post about TDD and if it’s language neutral. The post concentrates on how different TDD looks like in different languages. Moreover, how it is interpreted, based on the language of choice. And
I think I put more effort to this presentation because I had only 10 minutes. And I needed to relay the message in that time. Apparently I did. But my point was not that DFT sucks. The intended result is good design, and that’s also possible without DFT. Testability is not a goal. It’s a