jeudi 22 novembre 2007

WHICH DEVELOPER ARE YOU?

Of course, while the pragmatic programmer is enjoying a nice diner at 8PM, his automated build is running at work for him, building, testing, measuring the code, measuring the test coverage, generating documentation and providing fresh and complete feedback for the next morning.
Isn't it just great to know someone safe is working for you while you enjoy your time?

A PRAGMATIC DAY


This is a drawing I use to explain what an ordinary pragmatic day is for an agile developer.

vendredi 9 novembre 2007

TEACHING

I've just started to teach software engineering to a class of last-year engineering students.
As Chad Fowler puts it in "My Job Went To India":

When you teach, you have to answer questions that may never have occurred to you. Through teaching, we clean the dusty corners of our knowledge as they are exposed to us.