Andy Palmer

Following on from my Installing Eclipse post, I put together an empty workspace using my recommendations, as well as a couple from the Ivan Moore and Mike Hill session Programming in the Small. Unzip the template into your workspaces directory and rename it to whatever you want your new workspace to be called. When you [...]

I was talking to someone who had had a project manager mention in a retrospective that he felt that the testing was slowing down the delivery. They wanted to stop “wasting time” on testing and refactoring. When I heard this, I said “That’s a bit like going on a car journey and your passenger telling [...]

Earlier today Antony said on Twitter: “stop apologising if your code starts out messy… it’s how it ends up that counts…. you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs” I replied: “Code _should_ start out messy. Finding the right places for things is harder when they’re already neatly in the wrong place” If you [...]