Value-Driven IT

Alan Kay once said , The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than ...

In Extreme Programming Explained , Kent Beck wrote, In XP, the [elements of planning] are the stories. The [scope units] are the estimates...

I have been using go for the past six months, in an effort to learn a new natively compiled language for high performance applications. I ha...

I smile when I hear younger programmers talk about Web services; but my smile is a smile of sadness - because what I am thinking is that the...

This is for those who think that Agile is a recent evolutionary advance in software engineering. It is not. Before the 1990s, a great many -...

Are you kidding me??? Recently I wrote a performance testing tool in Ruby and I have been rewriting it in Java. The tool uses Cucumber , s...

Last spring one of the gurus of the Ruby world set off an earthquake when he published a blog post titled, "TDD is dead. Long live test...