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silk and spinach
http://silkandspinach.net/
Kevin Rutherford on agile software development and life in Macclesfield, UK
- Added on: Mar 27th, 2005
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Listed in: Programming Software
- Tags: agile lean Carnival theory of constraints toc tdd
Recent Posts
operations smells
In response to my Developing a Sense of Smell sesion at XPDays Benelux this week, Patrick Debois has begun collecting the smells he finds in operations and sysadmin work. The thesis behind the Benelux session was that code smells offer a good vocabul...
interview with eli goldratt
Clarke Ching has achieved a major coup by posting a 1-hour interview with Eli Goldratt. In the interview Goldratt talks about his new book Isn’t It Obvious, which is another business novel about the Theory of Constraints, this time applied to r...
interviewed on InformIT
Bill Wake and I have been interviewed about Refactoring in Ruby by Russ Olsen for InformIT; you can read the interview here. (I note that my answers have been re-spelt the American way :) ...
devver are using reek
Interesting link: In Improving Code using Metric Fu the folks at devver.net give a little insight into how they have been using Reek and the other Ruby quality tools to improve their codebase. ...
why i broke 89 tests
A couple of days ago I made a little change to Reek and to my surprise 89 tests broke, which is bad. I tweeted about it, and soon @logosity had asked me to write about why it had happened. I know the same sort of thing happens to people all the time,...
today’s kata
In Ruby, one easy way to check for palindromes would be to write a method such as this: class String def palindrome? self == self.reverse end end But the C++ part of my brain screams that this is likely to be very inefficient. So, today’...
