--- title: "Other (Blog category)" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/other.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/category/other" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts." usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Other (Blog category) Roy Osherove: author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership. Consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership, Co-Ops and continuous delivery, plus 20 years of blog posts. HTML: https://osherove.com/blog/category/other · 16 linked entries (each is plain Markdown) · Site index: [llms.txt](https://osherove.com/llms.txt) - [Ugly Code Means Your Product Used to be Successful](https://osherove.com/blog/2013/6/4/ugly-code-means-your-product-used-to-be-successful.md) (2013-06-04): I have now worked at a bunch of companies, and consulted for quite a few. I have looked at some pretty horrible code. Every company I visit with say the same thing: “Yeah, but our code really sucks. “ It does not suck… - [Hire me for a day: Two Opportunities](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/7/29/hire-me-for-a-day-two-opportunities.md) (2007-07-29): I'm looking for consulting or course gigs in two places so I can get where I want to go. If you're interested in me working with you for a day or two, drop me a line to my contact form . Opportunity #1: Austin, Texas,… - [Why I won't be switching to Google RSS Reader](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/6/1/why-i-wont-be-switching-to-google-rss-reader.md) (2007-06-01): Google Reader is a great RSS reader, in the browser. However, if I try to figure out the ways in which it benefits me than my current reader - Omea , I get quite annoyed with missing functionality in Google Reader: No… - [New Job - Looking for New People!](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/1/22/new-job-looking-for-new-people.md) (2007-01-22): It's been a while since I last wrote, but things are a bit.. hectic. Itamar (our new child!) is amazingly beautiful, but I don't recall ever being as tired as I am these days. waiting for the 3 months mark :) In any… - [Baby Osherove - Born 28-12-06](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/1/2/baby-osherove-born-28-12-06.md) (2007-01-02): It's been an amazing last week here for my little family. We could not have gotten a better present for the new year. My wife and I welcomed a new member to our family, who is not named yet. He weighs 4 Kg. :) We've… - [I screwed up with a client. Here's what I've learned.](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/12/6/i-screwed-up-with-a-client-heres-what-ive-learned.md) (2006-12-06): Several days ago I finished a very angry phone call from one of my clients. They were letting me know how disappointed they were in me for letting them down, and how I just cost them a whole bunch of money and time for… - [Review - JetBrains Resharper](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/3/review-jetbrains-resharper.md) (2004-09-03): Product : Resharper Version 1.02 (note: version 1.03 has just been released) Company : JetBrains Price : 99$ per license A while ago I my wife was taking Java lessons as part of her Bsc degree. I was helping her out… - [BackgroundWorker implementation -in C#](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/6/16/backgroundworker-implementation-in-c.md) (2004-06-16): BackgroundWorker class – built using instructions from this fine article by Juval . using System ; using System . ComponentModel ; namespace Unique . Shavit . UI { #region BackgroundWorker public class BackgroundWorker… - [Make your .Net application support scripting - a practical approach](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/17/make-your-net-application-support-scripting-a-practical-appr.md) (2004-02-17): Summary Adding scripting support to your application is one of the most valuable things you can do for your client, letting them add value to your software, and keep it current over time with little or no overhead from… - [Learning from mistakes: the Don Quixote pattern](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/17/learning-from-mistakes-the-don-quixote-pattern.md) (2004-01-17): Experience is built on mistakes. in the near future I'll try to describes some of the biggest mistakes I've made during my (short)career and the lessons that I learned from them. In this post I'll tell you about one of… - [An optimizing experience](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/25/an-optimizing-experience.md) (2003-12-25): We recently encountered the task of optimizing a stored procedure that was taking very long to perform its business. It wasn’t that complicated but it was operating on a large table (350,000 records). The table has… - [Easy Proxy handling through the ProxyFactory and ProxyInfo classes](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/10/30/easy-proxy-handling-through-the-proxyfactory-and-proxyinfo-c.md) (2003-10-30): Here’s a simple and easy class that will ease the pain of configuring a Proxy Connection in your applications. The way you’d use it is like so: ProxyInfo pi = new ProxyInfo(); pi . OverrideDefaultProxy =… - [My favorites in OPML](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/9/9/my-favorites-in-opml.md) (2003-09-09): Generated by SharpReader -… - [Announcing: .Net Desktops Contest](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/11/announcing-net-desktops-contest.md) (2003-06-11): OK. Here's a cool idea. A " Coolest Desktop " gallery. Whoever wants, sends me a screenshot of their desktop ,either at home or at work, in a zip file, to [email removed] - make sure its a jpg or gif, not a bmp -put… - [.Net Debugging Resources](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/26/net-debugging-resources.md) (2003-05-26): Note: If you think something is missing don't hesitate and drop a comment. Articles: Debugging Articles on MSDN Debugging in Visual Basic .NET Ten Steps to Successful Debugging (in ASP.NET) How to debug script in Visual… - [My Bookshelf](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/9/my-bookshelf.md) (2003-05-09): Books I want//Book of the month : .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Volume 1: Base Class Library and Extended Numerics Library, 1/e Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET Writing Secure Code,… --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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