Spec by Example workshop in London – June 18-19
The best course I’ve attended in my career. I loved that the instructor challenged us to think for ourselves and did not give us the answers straight away – Trond Svensen, SITS
Archive for January, 2007
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Blinded by the user interface
Posted on January 31, 2007 | 8 CommentsA friend of mine has a problem – his team worked for months on a big system with great success, marvellous technical achievements and a very elegant architecture. However, the users don’t share his enthusiasm. They don’t appreciate the architecture, flexibility and openness to change. Somehow, they seem ‘blinded by... -
Enterprise .Net Toolkit: Unusual Suspects
Posted on January 21, 2007 | 15 CommentsIt’s been almost a year since I got involved in a big .Net enterprise project. My first choice would be to do it mostly in Java, but due to politics, or lack of better judgement, .Net was a given constraint. We pushed the technology to it’s limits and found out... -
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Posted on January 18, 2007 | No CommentsWhy High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity The central theme of this book is how the IT industry resembles an asylum taken over by inmates – with software products completely missing the goals of their customers due to a combination of programmer psychology and... -
Why is there an elephant in my messenger?
Posted on January 7, 2007 | 6 CommentsThe average PC has several orders of magnitude more disk space and memory than ten years ago, but developers are still sacrificing ease of use for a few megabytes. My MSN Messenger stopped working mysteriously a few days ago. I could not log in, and the silly program just gave... -
Getting Fit With .Net: version 0.1 is out! Grab it while it’s hot.
Posted on January 1, 2007 | 6 CommentsI spent the last month experimenting with FitNesse server for automated testing, especially the .Net integration – with great results. Even the complex tests were quite easy to write, glue-code to bind our libraries to FitNesse is very thin, and I quickly built the framework that held the project code...
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