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8 Oct

2007

10 Ways to Stop Context Switching

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: Agile, Meat Space Skills, New Post, Software Development, Widgets of Wisdom:

Context switching is rapidly changing from one focused task to another in a short amount of time. Back when we were ignorant of such things, we called this multi-tasking and thought it was good. While multi-tasking is handy in computers, it is not possible in humans. True multitasking looks more like walking and chewing bubblegum than switching quickly between […]

6 Oct

2007

Becoming an Architect

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Architecture and Design, Software Development, Widgets of Wisdom:

Rob Daigneau, Director of Application Architecture for Monster.com has out together a very nice set of slides for a talk. I wish I could hear the talk that goes with this slide deck on Becoming and Architect (the software kind). That’s all, just a link.

17 Sep

2007

Widgets of Wisdom II

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Widgets of Wisdom:

If you aren’t familiar with the Widgets of Wisdom feature, see the explanation and disclaimer here. A mock is a stub with assertions Strive for black box unit tests, not testing beyond the interface boundary is ideal. Known Agile smell: Preferring practices over values. Agile is like Churchhill’s democracy, the worst possible solution until compared to […]

7 Sep

2007

Widgets of Wisdom I

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Agile, Widgets of Wisdom:3 Comments

I scribble little sayings, quotes, statistics, and notes on paper pads all through my day. I collect these great little nuggets and keep them on scraps of paper forever, it seems. I never know what do do with all of these little pearls so that they might be recorded for posterity, so to keep them […]

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