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Steal My Book
last night I found out on twitter , that people are spreading the full PDF versions of my book . What made me angry was that the person who did this had the audacity to also retweet stuff I said, a few minutes after…
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Announcing the Team Leadership Google Group
I believe the next wave of issues that we will need to start solving is that of software team leadership . We may all believe in the stuff that agile, tdd and the like bring to the company, but we often have problems…
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Your testimonials needed on TDD master class and my teaching skills
It seems that there are some clients that require client testimonials about my 5 day TDD master class and about my TDD related classes in general. It has suddenly occurred to me that I have none (except those verbally…
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Introducing 5Whys.com
I created 5Whys because… well – here’s why . This blog will remain about TDD and other things, but 5Whys.com will be about a focused gateway to developers who want to be better, and team leads who want to be better. And…
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8 techniques to find problems in your unit tests within 30 seconds
when reviewing tests, there are “easy finds” you can have. Here’s how I might start search for the following issues: Trust issues – can I trust the test (is it repeatable, conssistent and tests the right thing? Search…
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TDD Master Class Day # 3 – “What I learned today”
Today’s edition had two questions: what was really hard to accomplish today, and what did you learn? Good: The different isolation frameworks Swapping all instances of a type How the Isolate.IgnoreCall method really…
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TDD Course Day 2 – “What I Learned Today”
Here’s what people at my course in Norway had to say at the end of the day to the question “Tell me one thing you “got” today “: Lambda expressions (many of the isolation frameworks require heavy use of Lambda…
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One Free Ticket to my UK TDD Master class
Want to be in my UK TDD master class but can’t find the money for it? If you have a blog, there’s a very big chance that you could still get in . Draw will be held on sep. 1st!
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Benefits of TDD and Pair Programming (Course Day #1)
We just finished day 1 of TDD master class in Norway. Here’s what people had to say about TDD and Pair Programming which they did half of the day: When doing TDD it is: Easier to isolate a problem Probably less bugs…
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NDC Video Torrents Update – More videos! (please re-seed)
There are now two torrent files. Vegan Vikan has shared a torrent that has most of my TDD talks, a few from Ayende, and Robert Martin/ This torrent has talks that I downloaded. Action item: Even if you’re not interested…
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NDC Video – Robert Martin – S.O.L.I.D Principles of OO class design
another one from the big uncle overseas Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable.
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NDC Video – Robert Martin – Craftsmanship and Ethics
while you’re waiting to get all the videos I have via torrent (could take about 6 days for the initial seed to be complete, sorry!), here’s another killer from Robert Martin: Embedded Flash media from the original post…
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NDC 2009 Videos - .Torrent File
After uploading files slowly to Viddler, I realise that the video quality is pretty low. so, I create a .torrent file you can use to get the hi-res versions of the NDC videos I managed to download. I use UTorrent as a…
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NDC Video – Robert Martin – Component Principles
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NDC Video – Robert Martin – Clean Code III – Functions
Uncle Bob! Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable.
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NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Working Effectively with Legacy Code
another one by Michael Feathers Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable.
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NDC Video – Jeremy D. Miller – Convention Over Configuration
Here’s one by Jeremy Miller Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable.
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NDC Video – Michael Feathers – Seven Blind Alleys in Software Design
and another, by Michael. Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable.
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NDC Video – Ted Neward – WCF Patterns
This one, by Ted Neward Note: it starts about 10-15 minutes into the video (it is unedited) Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable.
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NDC Video: Michael Feathers – Design Sense
the videos from NDC 2009 were briefly published and then went away never to come back, it seems. I was able to snag several of them just before they went away so I’ll be publishing them on the blog as I upload them…
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Six things that will happen when you uninstall your MSDN documentation
someone asked in a mailing list if there are any repercussions to uninstalling MSDN documentation from their system, since it was taking such a long time to load on F1. my answer: After uninstalling MSDN you will get…
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Uncle bob and the Art of Unit Testing
Before my book came out, I sent a copy over to Robert Martin. the guy in the agile circles these days (and for many years!) I wanted him to read it and give me a quote about the book I can use. Well, it took some time…
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No Excuses
I read on twitter the other day this guy who wanted to go to my TDD master class course but was bummed out for not having the money. so he started bitching about it on twitter how it costs so much and can someone please…
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Script# (Script Sharp) – writing javascript in C#
I’ve started dabbling with web development. I’m building a secret project that I’ll unleash one day. soon. I’m learning a lot of JS and JQUery foo as I’m putting together a coupld of ajax and interaction intensive pages…
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Webinar: Driving unit testing in the organization
Just a quick reminder, I’ll be participating in the Typemock webinar tomorrow on how to advance unit testing in your organization. It will be led by Gil Zilberfeld and myself and we’ll talk about ways to overcome…
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Nightly build wins again
Here’s an email message the dev lead at our company sent out tonight: “Hi, I analyzed the nightly build failure - it broke because of an examples test that tests recursive fakes, and incidentally uses WhenCalled() on a…
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Lean and Kanban Videos
Lots of what seem to be good videos about Lean and Kanban here http://www.sep.com/lk2009/david-anderson-kanban-applying-principles-and-evolving-process-solutions
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Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help
in continuation to my challenge (which no one had bothered answering, lazy web!) One of the things that inhibits unit tests in organizations is the idea of fragile tests. a Fragile test is a test that can easily break…
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Preventing fragile tests – how can isolation frameworks help or hinder your goal?
One of the things that inhibits unit tests in organizations is the idea of fragile tests. a Fragile test is a test that can easily break when the production code changes. That’s not to say that tests should never break…