“If I had to perform all future maintenance on this code, would I be happy?” or “Would Person X still be my friend if I left them to maintain this code?” I’ve been thinking recently about motivating developers to write good (ie. maintainable) code. We all know how easy it is to fire and forget… ...

The past little while I’ve been planning a Hack Day for the company that I work for. We were originally supposed to hold it a few months back but some project deadlines got in the way and it inevitably got delayed. However, we’re in the home stretch and we’ll actually be holding the event tomorrow, ...

I must admit that I don’t read a lot of books, and even less books when those books are not overly technical in nature (I read > 100 feeds daily and tend to read most technical literature online). My girlfriend on the other hand reads quite a bit and given that we were going to ...

Obviously software testing is a good idea. I’ve been a software developer long enough to realize the benefits of investing in up-front testing of the software. It’s baked into my development process and I wouldn’t commit code without at least thinking about the test scenarios, let alone consider writing them up as [unit|integration|regression]-tests. I started ...