more users than you think (15 Nov 2006)

Programmers are users too

why refactor? (14 Nov 2006)

The (current) canon of dogmatic Agile (with a capital 'A') and test-driven development demands that we RefactorMercilessly at every turn, but that seems somewhat simplistic to me. When I refactor, I do indeed strive to refactor mercilessly; but sometimes I don't feel the need to refactor at all...

nothing but "uses" and "implements" (11 Nov 2006)

Delving deeper into some of the reasoning behind my personal UML style

the wrong duplication ( 5 Nov 2006)

A refactoring anti-pattern

introducing andy lawrence (30 Oct 2006)

Andy Lawrence joins the blogflood

systems thinking for borrowed time (24 Oct 2006)

A link to a Systems Thinking follow-up to last week's carnival

how not to design a website (23 Oct 2006)

A bad experience paying a utility bill online leads to some reflection on user experience as a measure of success

carnival of the agilists, 19-oct-06 (19 Oct 2006)

The latest edition of the regular digest of news in the agile blogsphere

CxxTest is different from JUnit (15 Oct 2006)

While learning about CxxTest I found a major difference compared to JUnit - one that causes me to write my tests slightly differently

agilenorth 2006 retrospective ( 9 Oct 2006)

Links to other blog posts about this year's AgileNorth conference

joomla can be almost a wiki ( 7 Oct 2006)

A mambot called rdlc has very nearly turned Joomla into a wiki for me

a personal UML style guide ( 3 Oct 2006)

I do a lot of informal UML modelling; here's my personal style guide to making UML models

why the big pause? ( 2 Oct 2006)

The beginning of yet another enthusiastic leap into the blogosphere

carnival of the agilists, 7-sep-06 ( 8 Sep 2006)

The latest carnival of the Agilists has been published

sensing variables (19 Aug 2006)

Mike Feathers introduces a refactoring trick whereby we can discover and test the state of tangled code before we refactor

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