We could have done better. That’s the thought that goes through my mind when looking back on this past year and reflecting on NuGet. Overall, I think we did pretty well with the product. Nobody died from using it, we received a lot of positive feedback, and users seem genuinely happy to use the product. So why start off with a negative review? It’s just my way. If you can’t look back on every project you do and say to yourself “I could have done better”, then you weren’t paying attention and you weren’t learning. For example, why...
Leon Bambrick (aka SecretGeek) has started a series on Agile methodologies and Test Driven Development (TDD) in which he brings up his own various hidden objections to TDD in order to see if his prejudices can be overcome. One of the questions he asks is an age old argument against TDD. Who Tests the Tests? Leon sees potential for a stack overflow since, given that the tests are code, and that according to TDD, code should be tested, shouldn’t there be tests for the tests? The short answer is that the code tests the tests, and the tests test the...
Jeff Atwood writes a great post about The Last Responsible Moment. Take a second to read it and come back here. I’ll wait. In the comments, someone named Steve makes this comment: This is madness. Today’s minds have been overly affected by short attention span music videos, video games, film edits that skip around every .4 seconds, etc. People are no longer able to focus and hold a thought, hence their "requirements" never settle down, hence "agile development", extreme coding, etc. I wonder what methodology the space shuttle folks use. You shouldn’t humor this stuff, it’s a serious...