Archive for January, 2009

TDD as a Design Rot Prevention System

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Coupling and cohesion have been discussed for a long time as the right criteria for judging a design. But there seemed to be no objective way to determine if code exhibited those qualities. Could TDD lead to higher cohesion and loose coupling?
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Agile? How do I learn more?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

LinkedIn is fun. Every now and then a person from the past pops in. A colleague from my early days at Teradyne had just heard about agile and she asked me what it was and how to learn more. Here’s what I told her.
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Christmas present that keeps on giving

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

A Christmas presents from my great kids, living its label. The gift is perfect for a computer nerd. You can see that it is very versatile. (more…)