Writing

All my writing.

• Pairing 101: Skills Matter

  27 Sep, 2009

  A few weeks ago, my good buddy Christian Blunden and myself presented at a London Geek Night. For us, it was quite fun and I hope people not only picked

• Coding Tip #42: turning enums into classes

  29 Jun, 2009

  In Coding Tip no27 I explained how I rarely like to use booleans to represent states, and prefer to use an enum. Now that I have all nice little enums

• Canned, Stubbed and Mocked Fake Objects

  25 Jun, 2009

  I had a very interesting discussion with Jen Smith today about the differences in approach to faking objects during testing. As a result, I am finally

• I don't believe in ORM object as your domain model

  2 Jun, 2009

  I have been on a few projects now where we have used ORM libraries to help store our data (eg ActiveRecord for Rails, Hibernate (and it's variants),

• Coding Tip #27: turning bools into enums

  25 May, 2009

  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 needs to