I thought I’d share the current workflow I have been using at work and why I think it’s been a pretty decent scheme so far. For this post I’m only covering jar deployment but I could see it easily working the same for gems or node.js npm packages. Just for a bit of background, here’s [...]
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Don’t Hit the Ground Running
February 18th, 2010
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When it comes to working in the software industry, I think I can best sum up what a majority of developers and teams do by simply quoting Pink Floyd from the song Breathe: Run, rabbit run Dig that hole, forget the sun And when at last the work is done Don’t sit down It’s time [...]
An Epiphany About Agile Coaching
November 1st, 2009
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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. – Socrates As those of you who read my blog often know, I recently made a career jump to a contracting firm to consult at different large scale organizations. To my dismay, my first assignment has been more as a developer than as a coach/scrum master, [...]
Beware Code Coverage Metrics
October 1st, 2009
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Yesterday during our morning huddle one of the developer’s mentioned that on the story he was working on he had achieved 97% code coverage and this got me thinking a bit about something that’s been on the tip of my mind for awhile. Now, I cannot speak for the developer at my huddle because I [...]
Dependency Injection is Not Just For Testing!
August 30th, 2009
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Something I have heard in the past is the bemoaning about injecting a dependency just for the sole sake of being able to test the use of that dependency, and while reading email today I saw that someone built a “handy utility” for replacing dependencies without having to make a setter or constructor. While they [...]
Agile in a Flash
July 3rd, 2009
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Recently I discovered an interesting blog thanks to Tim Ottinger’s comment on my TDD Anti-Patterns post, Agile in a Flash. It looks like they’re putting together a comprehensive book plus flash cards about Agile, and from the few posts I’ve read it looks very interesting. Check it out!
Testdriving Javascript With jqUnit
June 15th, 2009
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Whew… looks like my “Week of javascript TDD frameworks will really turn into a month of ‘em. Fine by me though, I like options. For a bit of randomness, I’m going to try out jqUnit. jqUnit is a TDD framework that takes quite a different approach… it is structured much like jquery is and tests [...]
Yet Another Day of Test Driven Javascript: Screw.Unit
June 12th, 2009
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First let me apologize for the delay in my posting. My intention was to post about a javascript testing framework each day, but the last couple of days I got a little stuck trying to get inspec to run.That coupled with the other things in life that compress my time I was just unable to [...]
Test Driven Javascript: Using JSSpec
June 5th, 2009
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For the first installment of my Week of TDD and BDD Javascript Frameworks I’m going to cover JSSpec. First I’ll cover some of the specifics and then jump straight into a demo of using it. The Dirty Details JSSpec, as the name implies, is a Behavior Driven Development framework based on the popular rspec ruby [...]
Pimp My GEdit
April 12th, 2009
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I’ve been doing a lot of ruby on rails work lately, and in absence of TextMate on my linux laptop I was searching for something good to use. Eclipse with RadRails is okay, but sometimes it can be a heavy weight (and random long startup times and random “initializing java tooling” bogs me down). So [...]
