I have to confess that I am an IntelliJ Idea fan. I will confess that the key bindings take a little getting used to - especially on a Mac but I find I am most productive using it. I do like to keep …
I have found myself drawing the classic cost of change graph a few times recently so thought I would blog about it. The graph was popular a few year ago in explaining the differences between and …
There have been a number of threads recently talking about screen/podcasting and the software required to do a decent job so I thought I would blog about the setup I am using. After trying a few …
If like me you installed WordPress and added some themes before understanding that WordPress has a great way of adding themes through the UI then make sure that you have changed the ownership of the …
This is my first screencast so all and any comments welcome!! This screencast is about adding an acceptance test to validate the title element in the returned HTML from the application. [flowplayer …
Sam Newman has just published a Brief And Incomplete History Of Build Pipelines which makes interesting reading. It will be interesting to see where the concepts take us in the next few years.
Over the last month I have been reading Prmodoro Technique Illustrated a fascinating book detailing a technique to apply real focus to problem solving and work in general. One problem I have with …
These ideas were presented as at ThoughtWorks Agile Southeast conference in Atlanta. The idea for these diagrams came about after the first time I spoke about web test driven development at Agile …
 A couple of decades ago I spent quite a lot of time working on my car. To be honest it was near the end of its life when I bought it …
I am going to take part in Prag Pro Wri Mo to find out if I have the inclination and capacity to write or if I am one of those people who would have liked to have written a book. This initiative seems …