Book Review – Extreme Programming Explained
January 21, 2011Last week I finished reading the first edition of Extreme Programming Explained, written by Kent Beck. I explicitly wanted to read the first edition, that I purc...
Read more ...The Social Network
January 10, 2011Over the weekend I watched this movie called The Social Network. As a geek, I felt that I was somehow mentally obligated to see this movie :-). While I was watching this movie, ...
Read more ...A Burden Called Meetings
December 9, 2010I’ve been working for an enterprise corporation for 5+ years, which I’m going to be leaving soon. This organization is suffering from a wide-spread malady called “meetingiti...
Read more ...Laborers versus Professionals
October 27, 2010A while ago, my good friend Michel Grootjans tweeted the following: Are developers (a) laborers or (b) professionals? If (a) don't expect them to think. If (b) don't expect the...
Read more ...Sins of Commissions
October 12, 2008Reading Joel Spolsky's latest article, Sins of Commissions, reminded me about a topic that I feel very strongly about, namely incentives for software developers based on some ki...
Read more ...Daily Stand-up Meetings
March 2, 2008I finished reading the excellent article It's Not Just Standing Up: Patterns of Daily Stand-up Meetings written by Jason Yip. Somewhere in the beginning of this article, the aut...
Read more ...On Software Factories
February 23, 2008Bart Waeterschoot is blogging on IntoFactories.NET. I'm glad he joined the blogosphere. Bart is a very smart guy and I'm looking forward to more of his writing. Nonetheless, I h...
Read more ...Misconceptions about Agile Programming
November 29, 2007This great Dilbert cartoon was put on the ALT.NET Yahoo Group earlier this week. Although it is really funny, it also illustrates some of the misconceptions about agile software...
Read more ...Bug Driven Development
September 24, 2007Are you doing Test-Driven Development or Bug Driven Development? From my experiences, test-driven development seems to slow you down at the beginning of a project. This isn't en...
Read more ...A day of great quotes
September 10, 2007Scott Bellware: I think that the difference between a good developer and an excellent developer is the excellent developer's willingness to not know, an openness to explore, and...
Read more ...The Myth of Software Estimation
August 29, 2007Just read an excellent blog post on The Myth of Software Estimation. The author claims that the relationship between humans and computers is just as unpredictable as ...
Read more ...Me like CruiseControl.NET
July 29, 2007One of the things I've picked up from the big book of developer tools is CruiseControl.NET aka CC.NET. CC.NET is a continuous integration system that automates the entire build,...
Read more ...TDD through the eyes of Jeremy D. Miller
July 23, 2007Another excellent post on TDD by Jeremy D. Miller. The following quote is something that needs to be up on the wall: DO learn how RhinoMocks works or DO NOT use it. Seriously...
Read more ...Agile Team Dynamics
July 10, 2007If you're interested on agile development, this blog post on Agile Team Dynamics is a must-read. I especially like the idea of banning e-mails for inter-team communication.
Read more ...Agile is just human nature
May 12, 2007I just finished reading a book written by Phillip Khan-Panni, and its not about any of the latest cool technologies or methodologies, but about efficient communication between u...
Read more ...Why Accurate Estimations Are Just Not Possible
April 20, 2007This is both funny and true.
Read more ...Once Upon a Team
January 31, 2007Great follow-up by Jeremy D. Miller for The Anti Team. You can find this blog post here. You should give it a good read! Good teams challenge their approach every single day and...
Read more ...The Anti Team
January 22, 2007Another great manifest by Jeremy D. Miller, called The Anti Team. Especially the first one is a very recognizable team role and especially the one I hate most: the non-coding ar...
Read more ...
Writing Maintainable
Unit Tests
Watch The Videos
Latest articles
-
Contract Tests - Parameterised Test Cases
June 28, 2023
-
Contract Tests - Abstract Test Cases
April 12, 2023
-
Contract Tests
February 1, 2023
-
The Testing Quadrant
June 15, 2022
-
Tales Of TDD: The Big Refactoring
February 2, 2022
Tags
- .NET
- ALT.NET
- ASP.NET
- Agile
- Announcement
- Architecture
- Behavior-Driven Development
- C++
- CQRS
- Clojure
- CoffeeScript
- Community
- Concurrent Programming
- Conferences
- Continuous Integration
- Core Skills
- CouchDB
- Database
- Design Patterns
- Domain-Driven Design
- Event Sourcing
- F#
- Fluent Interfaces
- Functional Programming
- Hacking
- Humor
- Java
- JavaScript
- Linux
- Microsoft
- NHibernate
- NoSQL
- Node.js
- Object-Relational Mapping
- Open Source
- Reading
- Ruby
- Software Design
- SourceControl
- Test-Driven Development
- Testing
- Tools
- Visual Studio
- Web
- Windows
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed on this blog are my own personal opinions. These do NOT represent anyone else’s view on the world in any way whatsoever.
About
Thank you for visiting my website. I’m a professional software developer since Y2K. A blogger since Y2K+5. Author of Writing Maintainable Unit Tests. Provider of training and coaching in XP practices. Curator of the Awesome Talks list. Thinking and learning about all kinds of technologies since forever.
Latest articles
Contract Tests - Parameterised Test Cases
June 28, 2023
Contract Tests - Abstract Test Cases
April 12, 2023
Contract Tests
February 1, 2023
The Testing Quadrant
June 15, 2022
Contact information
(+32) 496 38 00 82
info@principal-it.be