Testing. I’ve been thinking a lot about testing recently. As part of code reviews I’ve done for various projects, I’ve seen thousands of lines of untested code. This is not just a case of test coverage statistics pointing this out, Read more
It’s been an interesting few months since I last wrote anything here. Apart from a fairly hectic project in work, my wife is re-training as a software developer and so I’ve been able to find out many ways in which Read more
I can’t think of a single person who enjoys writing comments in code. I don’t, my friends and colleagues don’t, and I’m pretty sure there isn’t a meetup group for fans of it. Outside of code that I write for Read more
Having read my last post regarding version, you have no doubt jumped in your time machine, gone back a few years or months and implemented a sound versioning policy on all the projects you work on; your colleagues think you Read more
Why use version control? Versioning is a crucial key of the development process for several reasons best described through the lack of versioning: Want to see a great piece of code that was refactored out, deleted or otherwise lost six Read more