In a demo today another example of why we really need more unit testing instilled cropped up. One of our senior developers was giving a demo after the first Sprint on a project on an overhead projector. Someone piped up that he should try adding a document to multiple categories. So he agrees OK, selects [...]
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I’ve been cruising through the first few chapters of Fit for Developing Software by Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham. It’s a pretty good read as I finally feel like I have a good handle on how to wire Fitnesse to Fixtures and Fixtures to my code. I’m actually really kicking myself a bit because we [...] Today I stopped bothering to update XPlanner. Part of the Agile method is to “do the simplest thing that works.” XPlanner wasn’t really a simple install, but once I adjusted to the user interface it made at least logical sense. The problem is: I already track my Scrum projects on white boards with sticky notes. [...] Apparently my assumption that there will eventually be a podcast for every niche is starting to happen. Cocoa Radio is an entertaining podcast devoted to independent Mac software developers developing in Cocoa. So far there’s only a few out there, but the focus is on interviews with independent Mac developers like Brent Simmons of NetNewsWire [...] I regularly ‘google’ potential hires to see if I can find out any useful information before even getting to a technical screening phone interview. Sometimes you can’t find much of anything on a candidate even a candidate with an unusual name. I don’t read a lot into this but I often wonder about it. If [...] |
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