Exploring Extreme Programming
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North. ISBN 073522014X. You’re tooling through time and your machine goes kaput. Ryan North has your back: You don’t have to wait hundreds or thousands of Continue reading Review: How to Invent Everything
When you clean up code, you often need refactorings that aren’t in any tool, and aren’t in Martin Fowler’s Refactoring catalog. You’re on your own. When this happens, think like a language lawyer and a logician. Language Lawyer and Logician Continue reading Home-Grown Refactorings – Be Careful!
Elm in Action, by Richard Feldman. ISBN 978-1617294044. (Amazon, Manning) This is a great introduction to the Elm language. It starts from basic concepts, and uses a running example of a photo browser to demonstrate many concepts: elm constructs, talking Continue reading Review: Elm in Action
How do stories fit in with other stories, or small stories with bigger ones? How can we move from skinny stories to richer ones? This is part of Scalability of stories. One way to think about story relationships is to Continue reading Connecting Stories
We’ll look at Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Test-Commit-Revert (TCR) in terms of how they work with frequent commits to source control. Test-Driven Development (TDD) Test-Driven Development is often described with this cycle: Red-Green-Refactor (or Red-Green-Gold, as I learned from Alex Continue reading TDD, TCR, and Frequent Commits
How do you think about stories? We’ve talked about different levels of stories. Scalable stories let us gradually increase the intensity and utility of system behaviors. As before, I’ll use LinkedIn.com for examples. (This is a reverse-engineering exercise; I have Continue reading Scalable Story Examples
Labyrinths, by Jorge Luis Borges, 2007 edition. ISBN 0811216993. Borges was an Argentine fantasy writer. This book is a collection of 20+ short stories, as well as about 10 essays on writing. His stories often have themes of mirrors, mazes, Continue reading Review: Labyrinths
Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e), by Dick Grune and Ceriel J.H. Jacobs This book covers a huge range of parsing techniques – every parsing technique I’d heard of, and many more. Once Donald Knuth gets ready to produce volume Continue reading Review: Parsing Techniques, A Practical Guide (2/e)
Stories Have Multiple Granularities User stories may seem like they are about specifications but they’re really a lightweight way to explore possibilities. Many teams get too focused on the “card” aspect, using tools to turn user stories into an atomized Continue reading Multi-Level Stories
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change, by Neal Ford, Rebecca Parson, and Patrick Kua. 2017. ISBN 1491986360. This book focuses on evolvability of software, treating it as a top-level architectural concern. “An evolutionary architecture supports guided, incremental change across multiple dimensions.” Continue reading Review: Building Evolutionary Architectures