I enjoyed this article immensely and look forward to the next in the series.

I thought initially that "well vexed in Java" was a typo but on reflection I think you...

My brother in law had two short books on his shelf. One was about your CV &the other about interviews . The interview book said that all questions...

I've been looking at the whole business requirements through to deliverable process.

I used to think I was quite good at testing and peer reviewing code.....until my then company hired a...

OK bad phraseology. Before TDD type practices.

I can remember an impassioned debate about the adoption of...

Provided the guys who build the AI system have read and taken on board Asimov's 3 laws of Robotics and considered the changes required as discovered by Giskard and Daneel...

In the same way that men shaved without cutting their throats before the invention of safety razors quality code was written before the invention of unit tests.

Well said!

I'd question that you double the time taken because you actually think what you are doing. I think this adds discipline to the development process and actually saves...

jckfla (7/17/2015)

Just seems to me that rapid development/continuous delivery of software in the current era is more about revenue streams widening rather than usefulness of technology advancing rapidly.

And...

Speaking personally I became...

I quite like companies running random charity events. I've been to some really good ones that really lifted the spirits and made plenty of cash for the charity involved....

With certain caveats yes you can.

The idea is that you write the tests that expresses the business...

I'm glad you mentioned the culture change and emphasised the need to work on the processes. The tools and technology are there already.

When you say continuous delivery do you...

It's great that the SQLSERVER community is like this but also a bit sad that the collaboration and helpfulness is regarded as unusual.

I've been hunting for the podcast from Netflix where they stated that they learnt the hard way to trust the data. They found that many of their intuited decisions...

Anything where you are describing relationships between entities and those relationships themselves have properties have properties.

I wrote about using Neo4J to help navigate through the relationships[/url] in a SQL Server...