November 2009
5 posts
Comment left on review for Feeble Paradox
http://www.newstatesman.com/television/2009/11/high-drama-flint-king-paradox This is the Beeb’s feeble response to Flash Forward – can’t be bother with that either, but at least they have writers who can write. Best bit was trying to wake the sleeping tanker driver by standing 50 metres away and shouting, instead of driving right up to the bridge and using the car’s horn like a normal person...
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 more than necessary Yeah, you said you’d be there one time I sighed All my fault Reciprocate the failure Send card embossed with lillies No sympathy ...
Ok, I'm not perfect and I still get angry - but...
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 ever sat next to. I think he was trying to get me to move. He had his wife and child with him (at least I think it was his child, I don’t think I saw him...
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 claim to have at least some of it. I’ve helped conduct at least two interviews where you ask a straight question related to a claim on a CV e.g....
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.aspx It’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 prove your changes have’t broken it. I do believe that the code is better, as long as each test comes directly from the specification, it shows you have...