Monthly Archives: August 2015

It is natural for humans to estimate. We do it all the time, reflexively. And this is good, because it keeps our minds from overloading. However, we have to take care to re-evaluate our estimations for them not to become prejudices. ► All My Insights Share this:

Insight of the Week #13 – Estimates and Prejudices

24 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Effective Programming / Estimates / NoEstimates by letsdeveloper

Definitely worth every penny: The WBITDD series of jbrains. He develops a small point-of-sale system, including hardware. Possible approaches, design alternatives, and much more are discussed and most important of all: You get to see some hands-on TDD. There’s a preview available. Decide for yourself if it’s worth spending money […]

I Recommend: Worlds Best Intro to TDD

24 Aug, 2015 in Let's Develop / Recommendations tagged Effective Programming / Hands On / Software Craftsmanship / TDD by letsdeveloper

With code it is like with emails. It is impolite to just send a braindump to somebody, expecting her to figure the essence of it. The same way it’s impolite to check in ugly code, expecting the next person (possibly oneself) to figure out what it does the next time. […]

Insight of the Week #12 – Refactoring is Politeness

24 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Communication / GTD / Refactoring / Software Craftsmanship by letsdeveloper

James Shore’s Playlist about test driving his personal tax/finance management software surely provides real-world insight to TDD. It’s a great experience to follow James on his journey and see the app evolve over time. It’s worth your time. I promise! ► All Recommendations Share this:

I Recommend: Let’s Play TDD

24 Aug, 2015 in Let's Develop / Recommendations tagged Hands On / TDD by letsdeveloper

When developing with frameworks, we usually have an integration problem, because the assumptions underlying our unit tests may or may not match the actual behaviour of the framework. Today I discuss a strategy to get out of this mess without duplicating tests or throwing away TDD. ► All My Insights […]

Insight of the Week #11 – Testing in Frameworks

12 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Effective Programming / Integration Testing / Software Craftsmanship / Testing / Tricks / Unit Testing by letsdeveloper

Trying to refresh my Python knowledge in a round of CodeAbbey. It’s good practice. Join me! Share this:

Code Abbey #1 – Minima

12 Aug, 2015 in Code Abbey / Let's Develop tagged Let's Play / Programming by letsdeveloper

Successful work requires fast feedback. Independent of what you’re doing, you want to know as fast as possible how you’re holding up. Everything else is based on this feedback, so you better get it! ► All My Insights Share this:

Insight of the Week #10 – Fast Feedback

12 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Effective Programming / Feedback / Project Management / Research / Software Craftsmanship by letsdeveloper

While playing with deployment to GitHub repositories, I figured out some interesting property of the method I presented in the previous episode: Deployments deletes all previously deployed files. While this may not be a problem with snapshot repositories, it certainly is for release repositories. But thanks to git tagging, there’s […]

Maven in Eclipse #15 – Release to GitHub

12 Aug, 2015 in Let's Develop / Maven tagged Eclipse / GitHub / m2e / Tools / Tricks by letsdeveloper

Choosing the right architecture is difficult. I think that choosing the right one for your future system is even impossible. Whatever fits now may not fit tomorrow. But that means you should change it then. Not now! ► All My Insights Share this:

Insight of the Week #09 – The Right Architecture

12 Aug, 2015 in Insight of the Week / Let's Develop tagged Refactoring / Software Craftsmanship by letsdeveloper