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    Heroic Failure on the 13th of November

    Had you down for Heroic Failure on the 13th of November Could you oblige? RSVP to me We'll have tiffin on the lawn, eat small tiger for tea Measure nose to tail Will be slightly longer than the other one you see? Tasty tiger don't eat me no m

    Comments (0) . Monday, 23 November 2009

    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