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Coffee Notes: The Domain Test Values Class

Here’s an interesting clip on optimizing the way you write Unit tests. In his Blog entry, Dave Bower presents a pattern for using meaningful terminologies rather than literals in your tests....

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Coffee Notes: 10 Effective Ways to Become a Good Programmer

Here’s a nice top 10 list. I really like #7 and #10. “Working as a software programmer in IT industry, one thing that drives us daily to the work place; is that fun and passion lies in programming. But...

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Coffee Notes: 7 IT Career Rules Worth Breaking

Here’s a great quick read about some career myths that maybe you should avoid. Dave Willmer really hit the nail on the head with these 7 tips. More than one I need to work on still :) 7 IT Career Rules...

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Coffe Notes: Eight important books for software developers

Here’s a short list of must have books. Personally I have all the Engineering ones but process / psychology ones are new to me. At any rate this is a good list for any programmer. The list includes:...

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Coffee Notes: Code Complexity

I wanted to write a quick note on what code complexity is and why it’s important. While there a lot of tools that can calculate this for you, understanding and applying the basic concepts will pay huge...

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Coffee Notes: Offshore 280% more defects

The other day I came across this stat and it was so interesting I wanted to followup on it before I forwarded it on.  According to Michael Mah at the Cutter Consortium offshore IT creates 280% more...

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Coffee Notes: Seven Wastes of Software Development

Here’s an interesting article on the Seven Wastes of Software Development In the article, Matt Stine, discusses the concepts of eliminating waste, first as it was presented in the Toyota Production...

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Coffee Notes: Negotiating Scrum Through Watefall

Here’s an interesting article about how to really deal with many of the challenges faced when dealing with Waterfall cultures and new Agile concepts. In his article Phil Southward lists out many of the...

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Coffee Notes: How to Build an Agile Dev Team – The GE Way

“Building software in a waterfall approach, where there is a big milestone release at the end of the process, isn’t conducive to success in the modern world, according to top executives from the NYSE...

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