Sarah Taraporewalla’s Technical Ramblings

On my recent project, I have noticed a resurgence in a pattern that I have seen many times previously: where a field which is represented as a boolean needs to evolve to represent more than just two values (true and false). The number of times that I have encounted this makes me believe that you should always start [...]

The classic log-in story is often the story that new-to-agile-ist assume you need to develop first. In fact, it is often the last story that should be developed. The problem is that they see the order that stories should be developed in should mirror the process flow of the tasks that the customer needs to [...]

Around my neck of the woods, I have been having a theoretical debate with my colleague Dan Bodart as to the best method signature when it comes to collections of data. Dan’s point of view is that in order to be good citizens, our methods should form around interfaces and not rely on the concrete [...]

After a few days of introspection, I have finally decided to post about my reactions to the now infamous “Perform like a p0rn star” presentation and it’s aftermath. The Presentation Itself Looking at the presentation online, without having attended the conference, may exclude me from commenting fairly, but I just think “why”; as in, I [...]