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Book Club 1/25: Results, Railways, and Decisions
January 27, 2025
I've written before on my enthusiasm for the result pattern, but I'm going to expand on that a bit here and how it relates to testing. I've spent a fair...
Book Club 12/2024: Team Metrics and KPIs
December 30, 2024
Happy holiday season and new year to you all! In the week between the holidays here I'm thinking about metrics and KPIs and the whatnot that we use in our...
Book Club 11/2024: No
November 28, 2024
Happy Turkey Day gobble gobble! Those of us in the US are celebrating Thanksgiving Day, and today I'm thankful for all my colleagues who make a habit of...
Book Club 10/2024: Fallacies of Distributed Computing
October 28, 2024
Happy Halloween! Boo! I'm celebrating now for two reasons. First, the weather is very nice where I'm at; I prefer wearing more layers and Fall is the perfect...
Book Club 9/2024: Blogroll
September 28, 2024
As I posted a couple weeks ago, this month is the anniversary of restarting my blog! As though trapped in a Norm MacDonald interview, I'm frequently asked by...
Book Club 8/2024: Labor
September 2, 2024
Happy Labor Day to those in the US! This is the August Book Club but I'm sending it out a couple days late to coincide with Labor Day. I don't have a central...
Book Club 6&7/2024: Postgres
July 29, 2024
I hope you all in the northern hemisphere are enjoying summer; I've been trying to take some extra time here and there to enjoy things before Minnesota...
Book Club 5/2024: SOLID
May 29, 2024
Happy Memorial Day to those in the US, I haven't had time to post a lot this month but hopefully this one is controversial enough to make up for it! SOLID,...
Book Club 4/2024: I Don't Like ORMs
April 24, 2024
Indeed, Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) are a negative thing to me. For the uninitiated, these are tools which automagically provide ways of mapping data...
Book Club 3/2024: Simplicity
March 25, 2024
Everything is too complicated. Not just in software, everything! This isn't a novel concept, Teddy Roosevelt would have us believe that anything worth doing...
Book Club 2/2024: Recovering from TDD and Unit Tests
February 24, 2024
I'm on the record as having labeled myself a unit test hater. This is perhaps a bit extreme taken at face value; I like to advocate for approaches which...
Book Club 1/2024: What is a Software Architect?
January 24, 2024
This question - what is a software architect? - is a bit of an expansive one; I wouldn't think that I could ever answer it thoroughly, much less succinctly...
Book Club 12/2023: Workflow, Process, and Agile
December 16, 2023
Ho ho ho merry book club day - I'm sending this one out a bit early; tomorrow I'm headed on vacation and won't be back until the new year. Preemptively...
Book Club 11/2023: New .NET, New C#
November 22, 2023
I'm looking forward to turkey day tomorrow gobble gobble! This year I'm thankful that I work in ecommerce so I get to have a peaceful extended weekend...
Book Club 10/2023: Functional Patterns in C#
October 27, 2023
Happy spooky season! This month I've focused on functional domain modeling and related patterns. We're just a few weeks away from the release of the next...
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