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Mastering Programming (2016)
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Kent Beck
Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships? Click to read "Software Design: Tidy First?", by Kent Beck, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of…
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Software design gets worse before it gets better
The price of improving structure
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Slow deployment causes meetings (2015)
First published 2016.
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How I came to write “Tidy First?” tl;dr it took 18 years
Taking a software design course in college (Go Ducks!), we used Ed Yourdon (RIP) & Larry Constantine’s book Structured Design as a text.
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Emotions: A Code Book
What I write about my own personal journey is intended as just that—my personal journey.
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Eventual Business Consistency
Executive Summary of Bi-temporality
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Programming Deflation
When Code Gets Cheaper Every Day
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Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline
Originally published May 20, 2015.