Reality Loop

March 16, 2011
Tidbits: Microsoft Platform vs. Startups

StackOverflow and TekPub were my prime examples for cool sites based on the Microsoft stack. It seems that I have to look for new examples: We put a lot of thought into this - MS stack doesn't scale for startups. - Rob Conery, Founder of TekP...
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March 03, 2011
Continuous Delivery, the next big thing?

The cloud is more than just scale, it is also effortless deployment. - Scott Hanselman, Hanselminutes 255 Kent Beck is talking about Continuous Delivery in Software Engineering Radio 167: [In software engineering] the big trend is towards m...
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February 28, 2011
Quotes of the Week: Frameworks

You and your internal development team of architects are not going to build the next great framework. You’re not going to build a good one. You’re not even going to build an acceptable one. - The Framework Myth True code reuse between projects in...
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February 24, 2011
Quick picks from Gojko's "TDD breaking the mould"

Interesting perspectives on Gojo's presentation: TDD breaking the mould:"TDD leads to good design" revisited: There is a symmetry between good design and TDD. The inverse is also true: "Good design enables TDD".Quote Nat Pryce: TDD does not drive ...
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February 22, 2011
Looking at BDD from the perspective of requirements engineering

A listener to the Hansleminutes Podcast about Executable Specifications was asking me:All of the examples of BDD I’ve seen follow mostly the happy path with only an occasional nod to the unhappy path and don’t seem to go into as many corner case...
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