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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Unit testing and the narrowly averted Citicorp Center disaster

I was working on a project earlier today. Now, typically I always do test-driven development, where I’ll build unit tests that verify each class first and then build the code for the class after the tests are done. But once in a while, I’ll do a small, quick and dirty project, and I’ll think to [...]

Writing about software

Jenny and I are at the tail end of our fourth book, Beautiful Teams, and it’s really coming out well. We’ve put together a team of authors who’ve got some really fascinating stories about building software. Each of them has written a really compelling story from his or her past career. We’ve got people writing [...]