My favourite gadget of 2008 – the Synology DS107
Yep, I know it’s March already 🙂 but back in December I picked up one of these because I was after some Network Attached Storage, and it has impressed me eve...
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Why are software developers so bad at estimating time?
In order to answer this question, we need to understand the term “flow”. From Peopleware:
Automatic SVN Revision Numbering in ASP.Net MVC
Update: I've written an open source .Net build tool that can also put the highest SVN revision into a file automatically on build - check it out!
Reply to Iain Arthurs – Software Development Course Content
Recently, our little software company was contacted by a local college, to provide feedback on the content of a couple of new software engineering and advanc...
Valuing criticism, encouragement and feedback
Make a distinction between criticism, feedback, and encouragement, and ask for the one you really want. Criticism is filled with judgements based ...
How far should your unit tests go?
I don’t think it would be appropriate to talk about Unit Testing without first starting with the bigger picture of Agile Software Engineering Methodologies.
Writing useful comments
It was drummed into me throughout my software engineering training years - the essential internal documentation of software - the comment.