Smell to Refactoring Cheat Sheet – Industrial Logic
Refactoring cheat sheet. Continue reading Smell to Refactoring Cheat Sheet – Industrial Logic
Author Archives: Bill Wake
Problem-Solving and Teams
Problem-solving with teams. Continue reading Problem-Solving and Teams
Review – Refactoring Workbook
Refactoring Workbook, William Wake. Addison-Wesley, 2003. [Consider this a summary rather than a review of my own book.] My goals were to create a workbook that helps people practice recognizing smells (problems) and learn to apply important refactoring techniques. There’s Continue reading Review – Refactoring Workbook
Review – Instructional Design Strategies and Tactics
Instructional Design Strategies and Tactics, Cynthia B. Leshin, Joellyn Pollock, Charles M. Reigeluth. Educational Technology Publications, 1992. Certain instructional patterns are worth repeating. These authors use a very structured approach to instruction, complete with job aids to support it. As Continue reading Review – Instructional Design Strategies and Tactics
Sufficient Completeness and Testing
One way to determine “sufficient completeness” suggests considering all sequences of calls that can take an object to a state. This enumeration suggests important test cases. Continue reading Sufficient Completeness and Testing
In Memory – Dr. Sallie Henry
Dr. Sallie Henry. Continue reading In Memory – Dr. Sallie Henry
Origins of the Cubicle
Where the cubicle came from. Continue reading Origins of the Cubicle
Review – Complete Idiot’s Guide to Slam Poetry
Complete Idiot’s Guide to Slam Poetry, Marc Kelly Smith with Joe Kraynak. Alpha, 2004. April is poetry month, so I thought I’d try something different. Slam poetry takes poetry to the stage in “competition.” We get the basics of slam Continue reading Review – Complete Idiot’s Guide to Slam Poetry
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – Videos
Somebody at MIT was nice enough to make available the videos for lectures on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Abelson and Sussman. It’s a refresher in just how powerful Lisp is. For a language approaching 50 years old, Continue reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – Videos
The Last Telegram
I saw a note in the paper that Western Union has sent their last telegram, shutting down a 150-year-old business. Wish I’d known it was coming, I’d have sent "What hath God wrought?" to several people. (I know they just Continue reading The Last Telegram