Help! Everybody around is as Stupid as I am. How do I improve my Skills?

So you are reading all these articles about Scala, TDD, Continuous Integration and so on and you are thinking: “This sure sounds cool, but how do I do it? Where do I start? Who can teach me?” The easy answer is: Join the local x User Group, where x is your preferred programming language. But [...]

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The Cost of Testing or You don’t Know what You are Missing

Twice this week people challenged my belief in automated testing and Test Driven Development. The argument that was brought forward was simply: Unit tests are too expensive. I actually believe the opposite is true. Let me tell you about a little dialog that happened in my development team after two developer where working on a [...]

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The Kindle is Awesome

For three weeks now I’m the happy owner of a Kindle and it is just awesome. It’s not perfect … but it is awesome. Let me elaborate a little. Why it isn’t perfect: It’s bound to Amazon. Everything in the kindle is geared to buy from Amazon and to be bound to Amazon the content [...]

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