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Who am I? I work for ThoughtWorks as a technical consultant based in Melbourne, Australia. I make things better, mostly by incremental improvements to code quality, architectural fitness, stability, and safe rapid deployments.
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Careful of ‘technical stories’
Just came across an old article by Jeremy Miller titled ‘Balancing Technical Improvements vs New Business Features‘ which hits on a topic close to my heart. I’ve been doing a lot of work in the last couple of years on … Continue reading
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Canary Tests
Neal Ford writes about Coalmine Canary Tests. Canaries were carried by miners in the ‘olden days’ as an early warning system for a buildup of gas, giving them time to exit the mine before imminent death. Neal describes using a … Continue reading
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Build Hat
I like the build patterns that TWer Sam Newman has been blogging about. A recent favorite was a post titled “build fix flag” where Sam describes using a paper flag to show visually who is fixing the build. The rules … Continue reading
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Scared little boy. Australian Architecture Forum 2007
So I’m presenting at the AAF in Sydney June 27th, and Melbourne June 29th. The topic is about dealing with legacy software, peppered with learnings from a couple of client projects. It’s a topic I feel strongly about and an … Continue reading
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Melbourne Ruby User Group
I recently went along to a meeting of the Melbourne Ruby User Group, the first user group type of meeting I’ve been to for years. ThoughtWorks now hosts the meetings and supplies pizza and soft drinks, so I really have … Continue reading
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Another abandoned weblog…
And yet another embarrassed posting about not having written for … well 12 months. I hardly have time to get through my reading in the evenings after Jack goes to bed, much less write something intelligible. I shall try to … Continue reading