It has been awhile since I wrote a book review. There is one coming soon, but I wanted to talk about why it has been so long. Simple answer… I stopped reading. What happened? Well, I got caught up with switching jobs [ read more...]
How many times have you written this code? : Or some code like it. It is pretty common to parse a line and then take each column and store it in your object as data. One of the annoying problems is that [ read more...]
I've been contemplating this for a while now. I thought I would finally write on the subject and see what other people thought. Do you really need blocks after if statements? It has always been a best practice, in my opinion, to [ read more...]
I had originally started writing this post thinking that I knew that answer to the problem I am about to demonstrate. What surprised me is how much more clean a try catch solution seems to work than my original solution. The unclean [ read more...]
Yesterday I ran into a problem trying to figure out where to localize error messages. We are using a MVP (Model View Presenter) pattern for our web based application. I was working on refactoring some code to move the business logic which [ read more...]
In our morning standup meeting one of my team members made a pretty good point about story sizing not being so important. In Kanban we strive to have relatively same sized stories because it allows us certain benefits: More accurate metrics on [ read more...]