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  • What is technical debt? “[Technical Debt is] everything that stops you from effectively adding new features to your software product”. That [...]

    Technical Debt. Whys, hows and whens.

    February 19, 2009
  • “This code base is really growing now. And it is growing fast”. More thoughts are bubbling up inside you as you are browsing through [...]

    Sofware Team Anti-patterns pt. 7 – Code Baisse

    December 15, 2008
  • For those of you who are interested in TDDing a GUI, check out my Smidig2008 talk on YouTube. Note: I’m speaking Swedish on this one.

    Smidig 2008 talk – Can you TDD a GUI

    December 14, 2008
  • You are coding away and things are flying by. You are in the z o n e. Nothing can stop you now. And then, of course, it hits you. It kind of [...]

    Software Team Anti-patterns pt. 6 – Hidden backlog

    October 2, 2008
  • I like metaphors. They have a very powerful way of telling a story. I think it is the very graphic nature of most metaphors I like. Still, you [...]

    Programming and refactoring – A metaphor

    September 17, 2008
  • The Broken Build *Bling*, your email client exclaims. You ignore it. You’re on a roll. Things are flying by. At this pace you will be out [...]

    Software Development Team Anti-patterns (pt. 4)

    September 1, 2008
  • The CodeNapper After working on a code base for some time you are bound to start feeling more comfortable around certain areas. Especially if the [...]

    Software Development Team Anti-patterns (pt. 3)

    August 31, 2008
  • The Refactoring Butler (a.k.a ‘The Core Cleans Up’ or ‘Shadow Repository’) Cleaning up a team members code. Ever done [...]

    Software Development Team Anti-patterns (pt. 1)

    August 28, 2008
  • When you develop software there is an infinite number of things that might slow you down. Certain things are harder than other to speed up. Like [...]

    How soon can I get there

    August 25, 2008
  • Cut back on the usage of conditionals while programming and you will probably spot the needed abstractions more easily. Why am I saying this? In [...]

    Unconditional love (pt. 2)

    December 2, 2007

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