December 2008
4 posts
This week's highlights
Robby on Rails : Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist…
A nice checklist before going into production with our brand new Rails project. We (developers) are always so focused on user stories that we forget about the fact that the release is just the beginning of our customer journey not the end.
A List Apart: Articles: Getting Real About Agile Design…
I’m often...
This week's highlights
As many others, I like to read, listen or watch things on the web. As many others, I try to keep track of the most important things. As many others, I use delicious. Since I like also to post a little comment about the link, I thought maybe it’s not a bad idea if I publish those links. So after I’ve seen the weekly digest on Trevor Turk’s blog I decided to do the same.
Before...
Are you a software craftsman?
I had the pleasure to attend the craftsmanship summit on Saturday. The discussions on the mailing list are still going on but some intermediate works is worth remembering already. We tried for example to imagine what questions should be asked to a candidate to understand if he/she cares/understands what software craftsmanship is. The following list is a personal selection of the most interesting...
What a difference a line makes
I’m all for keeping the business logic in places where it can be easily isolated and eventually reused. I’m sure I’m not saying anything new, but there are cases where it makes a lot of sense to delegate. Examples of those cases are stored procedures and complex queries. Relational databases are pretty smart in parsing and optimizing SQL and when the database is a separate...