Spec by Example mentoring programme
Specification by example mentoring is aimed at individuals who know the basics, want to improve and need support, knowledge and ideas not available online or through training courses. First group starts 1 June.
best practices Archive
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Dependency injection with Castle Windsor: Video
Posted on November 4, 2008 | 3 CommentsHere’s the video from the talk on dependency injection with Castle Windsor that Mike Hadlow and I did last month at Skills Matter. in the first part of the talk, Mike introduces Dependency Injection and explains how to apply that pattern in practice with Castle Windsor. Then he talks about... -
Using Fitnesse pages as templates
Posted on October 21, 2008 | 1 CommentI’m getting this question very often from web site readers, and I’ve decided to put the answer online because it deals with a crucial misconception about FitNesse and signals a really bad usage practice. The question appears in different shapes, mostly around templating or simplifying complex scripts. This is the... -
Beware of the second worst programmer
Posted on October 7, 2008 | 7 CommentsI attended a Domain Driven Design course on Monday at Skills Matter offices. Eric Evans led the course and put forward a very interesting theory that the quality of a software system is proportional to the skills of the second worst programmer. -
10 ways to screw up despite Scrum and XP
Posted on August 6, 2008 | 7 CommentsHenrik Kniberg, author of Scrum and Xp from the Trenches, talked today at Agile 2008 about the most common ways for teams to fail despite applying agile practices and tools. His presentation was organised as a talk about common problems and symptoms of those problems, with audience voting on what... -
Clean your HTML inputs or the dog-eaters will get to you
Posted on June 23, 2008 | 3 CommentsLast month, I took a short break from my computer and went on a holiday. When I came back I was surprised to find that, while I was on the beach, Google sent quite a few people looking for underground Korean adult movies to my web log. I don’t know...
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