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When Test Driven Design Fails
In the last couple years, there has been a lot of buzz around things like “Agile“, “Scrum“, “TDD“, and other stupid stuff that wraps an acronym around common sense. Basically, they’re all a way for people to make money by writing books telling people how to develop software. The target market is non-technical managers, developers [...]
December 13, 2009
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Coders at Work: Brad Fitzpatrick
When I read the introduction to the chapter on Brad Fitzpatrick, I was slightly worried. He’s the guy who invented LiveJournal, which has been ridiculed (for good reason) ever since I’ve been using the internet. I knew some people in college who had LiveJournal accounts, and they were the kind of people who were always [...]
November 3, 2009
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Coders at Work: Jamie Zawinski
I’m reading through Coders at Work, which is basically a bunch of interviews with famous programmers. I just read the first chapter, which is an interview with Jamie Zawinski, who was part of the first team of developers at Netscape (he worked on the Unix part) and also is/was a developer/evangelist of the chlamydia of [...]
October 31, 2009
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