Get discounts on books, conferences and workshops
I speak at a lot of conferences and I often get promo codes from the organisers for people to buy cheaper tickets. I kind of ignored this so far, but several people asked about this at a recent workshop, so I decided to set up a mailing list for anyone…
Archive for December, 2008
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DbFit mailing list
Posted on December 13, 2008 | No CommentsSeveral new people sent in patches for DbFit and I will now have a lot more time to invest in development, so I’ve started a mailing list to coordinate ideas and work for DbFit 2.0. To join the group, see dbfit page on google groups. -
DDD event postponed to Jan 27th
Posted on December 13, 2008 | No CommentsThe DDD and deployment challenges event that was supposed to take place this Wednesday in London is postponed for the 27th of January. For more info, see the event page. -
Building a successful agile team
Posted on December 12, 2008 | 1 CommentJohn Rae and James Shiell presented tips and tricks for hiring the right people for an agile team yesterday during their session titled “Building a successful agile team” at XPDay 08 yesterday. Their startup grew rapidly last year, and was almost constantly hiring. The traditional hiring techniques and practices did... -
How do you decide when to pair program?
Posted on December 12, 2008 | 5 CommentsAt the XpDay 08 conference today, I participated in a workshop on pair programming organised by Matt Wynne and Laura Plonka. The participants were spit into several groups, discussing various challenges for the adoption and implementation of pair programming. I was in a group which was given a task to... -
Quality comes from cooperation
Posted on December 11, 2008 | 1 CommentChris Ambler, European test manager for Microsoft games, spoke about how games companies are testing software during his keynote Testing games is not a game – it’s serious stuff at XPDay 2008 today in London. Ambler said that the game industry is from a technology perspective doing much more bleeding...
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