June 2009
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About resources
I recently twitted about my problem with using the word “resource” when referring to people. I have no problem when we use it for other things like printers, projectors, rooms, etc… but it makes me gag in the context of people.
Let’s use it in a sentence shall we? “We need more resources to finish this project on time”. There is so much evil on this bit that I am just going to highlight that...
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Typing is not the bottleneck
There is something about Mike Hill’s article about “How TDD and pairing increases production” that resonated in me: “Typing is not the bottleneck”.
It’s a really simple message that affects to the way I want do software development. It’s the reason why I prefer to pair, the incentive that makes me write the test first, the rationale of why I think it’s wrong that some people refer to us...