Category Archives: ThoughtWorks

Continuous Integration – If something hurts, do it more often

Posted on May 26, 2010 by evan

The prevailing attitude in software development still seems to be that if something is difficult or expensive (or even just not much fun), we try to do it as few times as possible. This usually means deferring it until as late as possible. Continue reading →

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Blogging and Continuous Integration

Posted on May 26, 2010 by evan

I find I have a high barrier to writing – getting started is hard, if I write few things then I get obsessive about the quality of my writing. I need to get back on the horse – and write a few short topics that can get me flowing. Continue reading →

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Production releases – 0.875 per month

Posted on April 8, 2010 by evan

I’m coming up to four years with ThoughtWorks next month, and I’m in a reflective mood.  I did a quick count – since joining ThoughtWorks I’ve been involved in the delivery of forty-two (42) application releases into production (give or … Continue reading →

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Setter injection sucks

Posted on February 3, 2009 by evan

I know it’s not trendy to re-hash old java programming discussions – I should be discussing some new amazing functional language, however I’m in a grumpy mood. I have a beef with what appears to be the dominant trend of … Continue reading →

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Danger Will Robinson

Posted on July 26, 2008 by evan

I wrote my previous post about running linux on my desktop a couple of weeks back and realise I didn’t put a disclaimer on the post, so here it is… IF IT ALL GOES HORRIBLY WRONG DON’T BLAME ME! What … Continue reading →

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Linux at work again!

Posted on July 12, 2008 by evan

For the past couple of months I’ve been working in a very nice workplace with a bunch of nice people and even better some of them run Linux on their desktops without any fear of the SOE-police coming to march … Continue reading →

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Distracted

Posted on July 12, 2008 by evan

Whenever I think I’ll write a blog post, I get as far as logging into my wordpress admin and it’s always the case that a new version of wordpress has been released and it nags me to upgrade.  Ooh I … Continue reading →

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BarCamping (without the actual camping part)

Posted on February 24, 2008 by evan

I attended my first BarCamp today and I was really impressed. It was a very full day of interesting presentations by a lot of very smart people, the range of topics was really quite startling. I’m familiar with user groups … Continue reading →

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Subdirectory

Posted on December 10, 2007 by evan

Bob Martin: At the ER they put me in a room and gave me a dose of Morphine. Morphine is a very nice drug. It had the effect of filing the pain away in a convenient subdirectory where I could … Continue reading →

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Factory and Repository in the Domain

Posted on December 6, 2007 by evan

I’m a big fan of the book Domain Driven Design, and for some time I’ve been pushing the principles and patterns in my workplace. I’ve never managed to get ‘into’ the more theoretical parts of the book, and I chuckle … Continue reading →

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