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    Ok, I'm not perfect and I still get angry - but still try to deal with it

    I suffered the misfortune of sitting next to an extremely inconsiderate man on the train on Sunday. I was subjected to 2 hours of having my leg felt and the paper snapped and wafted in my face by the most irritating elbow wielding person I've eve

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 17 November 2009

    Tumbleweed Interview Candidates

    In my present role helping a team become more agile I was asked to help with some interviews. We must have talked to about ten people. The profile is relatively unusual: Object-oriented PHP with MVC and some Oracle PL/SQL. Unusual but a lot of people

    Comments (0) . Sunday, 8 November 2009

    TDD is effective if you look at the right things

    http://theruntime.com/blogs/jacob/archive/2008/01/22/tdd-proven-effective-or-is-it.aspxIt's nothing to do with the initial development. All about the long-term viability of the code. You can't refactor or maintain something if you can't p

    Comments (0) . Monday, 2 November 2009