It’s been a while since my last local appearance – too long in my opinion. Luckily I have a chance to remedy that:August 19th: I’ll be speaking at the IL .NET Developers user group (IDNDUG) about Navigating the TDD alphabet soup. I’ll be speaking about TDD/BDD/ATDD, their origins, how (and when) to use them and … Continue reading Upcoming speaking engagements – User groups, meetups & AgileTD
In 1969 a car with no license plates was parked with it’s hood up in the Bronx. Within minutes it was vandalized and stripped. That car was part of an experiment to test a theory called “broken windows”.The Broken windows theoryThe original broken windows theory was introduced in 1982:Consider a building with a few broken … Continue reading Broken windows and software development
A long time ago not that far away I’ve been hired by Omni-Corp to work on the new and shiny product. We had talent, budget and cool technology on our side, and that project was going to crash and burn (and ultimately cancelled) in less than a year.Nobody’s perfect - we had our share of problems, some … Continue reading I’m a software developer – not a lawyer
I’ve had fun today at DevGeekWeek where I got to talk about writing clean code and unit testing best practices. I’d like to thank the participants of today’s seminar – you were a great audience and I enjoyed speaking with you and learning about your experience with Agile, unit testing and writing code. Just in … Continue reading My DevGeekWeek sessions
Those you know me (or read my blog) know that I’m passionate (with a capital P) about software development, clean code and of course unit testing. And I’m happy to be given the opportunity to talk about these topics as part of The DevGeekWeek 2014 conference. The DevGeekWeek is a week of all things software … Continue reading DevGeekWeek 2014
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