Tim Ottinger's Blogs
| 07 Oct 2006 | Estimating Patterns | Tom D's wisdom for estimators recommended |
| 27 Sep 2006 | Collateral Effort | Dealing with the sense of waste |
| 27 Sep 2006 | Don't refactor everything | Refactor all your code? Not so! |
| 26 Sep 2006 | Sooner, not Faster | Is agile development about going faster? I don't think so. |
| 22 Sep 2006 | Optimizing Away Estimates | Goals, Estimates, Commitments |
| 13 Sep 2006 | More work or Less Work | Doing less early means doing more later. |
| 09 Sep 2006 | Agile is More Work | Is agile development more work for the programmer? |
| 06 Sep 2006 | Frameworks | Frameworks are for the impatient |
| 29 Aug 2006 | How Many Feathers? | How many feathers can you carry? |
| 25 Aug 2006 | Addicted to Expensive Tools? | Do we drown in cool tools? |
| 25 Aug 2006 | Vertical Space Revisited | Increase your density for clarity's sake |
| 18 Aug 2006 | What is it with vertical space | Save a mouse, delete a blank line |
| 16 Aug 2006 | Refactor It Ugly | Choose to be ugly for a little while |
| 15 Aug 2006 | Start Tight | Avoid regrets with a harsh start |
| 8 Aug 2006 | You are so not alone | Really not so different after all? |
| 14 Jul 2006 | Arguing with myself | What goes around comes around |
| 29 Jun 2006 | Class Is Not A BASIC Program | What's wrong with these classes? |
| 29 Jun 2006 | Classes Don't Encapsulate | Classes don't encapsulate like they used to |
| 27 Jun 2006 | Tests are a language | Could we build a trellis for growing our language? |
| 27 Jun 2006 | Apologizing for Code | A comment is really an apology |
| 24 Jun 2006 | The Quiet Bullpen | Listen for the sound of software |
| 11 Apr 2006 | The Cheesiest Thing That Might Work | Elegance can wait for the green bar. |
| 11 Apr 2006 | Where do Your Tests Come From | What are you going to do next, and why? |
| 10 Apr 2006 | Removing Redundancy Badly | How not to refactor your code (TDD pathology #3) |
| 16 Mar 2006 | Testing Hypothetically | Testing as if it were possible |
| 25 Feb 2006 | Harder than it sounds | It all sounds so simple |
| 22 Feb 2006 | Maintain an Even Strain | Spreading the pain like it was peanut butter |
| 10 Feb 2006 | Everything In Its Place | Test Contaminated? |
| 31 Jan 2006 | Reckless Refactoring | Recklessly refactoring considered harmful |
| 19 Jan 2006 | TDD Bumper Shots | Testing the hard way - TDD Pathology #2 |
| 13 Jan 2006 | Software Super Powers | Would you like a cape with that? |
| 9 Jan 2006 | Mother May I? | If we're playing this game, we are doing this backward - TDD pathology #1 |
| 6 Jan 2006 | Naive Tests Don't Help | You've got to know the territory |
| 5 Jan 2006 | Closing In | I'm getting closer and closer... |
| 4 Jan 2006 | Stable API | Is the API stable like the native type list? |
| 29 Dec 2005 | Reasons to Stay Wrong | Do tests create stability you don't want? |
| 28 Dec 2005 | Debuggers? Yes | A debugger is a handy tool after all |
| 28 Dec 2005 | Learn Dynamically | Dynamic languages are more learnable |
| 27 Dec 2005 | Not Yet Test-Driven | Maybe I don't get it. |
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