You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink
Trying to support a company or an individual who doesn’t want to change is counterproductive. It’s better to rely on the corporate culture.
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Make mistakes!
Mistakes as a teaching principle: they’re necessary for a deep understanding of problems, and they give meaning to best practices.
Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Refactoring
Refactoring comes with two challenges: avoiding regressions and tunnel vision. To help you: Golden Master, the Mikado Method, and the Strangler Fig pattern.
The debt wall
Technical debt is dangerous because it accumulates silently, until the day the company hits a wall. CEOs, take the lead.
Why is software so expensive?
Writing code isn’t that hard; evolving it is. Readability, testability, modularity: the three pillars of software craftsmanship.
2 days of training, 6 months of doubts
Training is, at best, a spark. Without ongoing support, putting what you’ve learned into practice is often difficult.
Technical Coach: My Job Doesn’t Exist
When the organization is dysfunctional, you call in an Agile coach. When the codebase stops evolving, you call in a code doctor: a technical coach.
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