Thought Driven Development a Methodology of Abile Development

Warning: This is a rant against TDD extremism! Sensitive TDD people better step out of this dark sleazy communist place right now!
I used to believe in Agile Programming. I tried XP and Scrum. But at some moment the Agile movement moved onto milking the cow. Expensive books - lots of them - appeared on amazon.com

Software development dogmata - good practices gone bad

Many practices in the software development world are widely accepted at some moment in time as the “true way”. The trouble starts when the “true way” is forced down the throats of people who need a “new way”. Usually popular practices follow a similar path between the moment somebody discovers/creates them and until they get [...]

How bad comments are born in your code

Many programmers mention their support for “good” comments in the code. A significant percentage of all developers think the quality of the comments is one of the traits that separate good experienced programmers from the rest. But the cruel reality is lots of code out there is not commented at all or, even worse, it [...]

Code review - The meaningless ritual

Most of the time code reviews are a meaningless ritual. Everybody pays lip service to the importance of code reviews and a lot of people, especially in the management, are convinced that code reviews very effectively reduce the number of shipped bugs.
The problem is… most developers hate code reviews and avoid them like the plague. [...]

36 steps to success as technical lead

The “tech lead” role can be treacherous at times. While the name implies “leadership“, most of the times it doesn’t come with implied authority like a manager role for example. It often happens that this role is in a no-man’s-land where it brings a lot of responsibility but not enough formal authority. In order to [...]

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