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The Case of the Disappearing App original ↗

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Codurance AI Hackathon original ↗

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A Decade of Lightning Talks with Programming One-Liners original ↗

4 Apr 2025

How Do I Test This?original ↗

20 Feb 2025

2024

Unravelling Conflict original ↗

4 Dec 2024

Using CoPilot-Like Tools is Not Pairing original ↗

28 Nov 2024

Crafters Meetup: Architecture Kata original ↗

5 Oct 2024

Cambridge Software Crafters Meetup original ↗

3 Sept 2024

Naming Functions: When Intent and Implementation Differ original ↗

22 Apr 2024

Our Star Baker original ↗

9 Feb 2024

2023

Unpacking Code Ownership original ↗

4 Oct 2023

2022

WMI Performance Anomaly: Querying the Number of CPU Cores original ↗

31 Oct 2022

2021

Chaining IF and && with CMD original ↗

1 Nov 2021

Transient Expand-Archive Failures original ↗

30 Sept 2021

Lose the Source Luke?original ↗

27 Sept 2021

The Case of the Curious Commit Message original ↗

23 Sept 2021

2020

Planning is Inevitable original ↗

19 Nov 2020

Pair Programming Interviews original ↗

16 Nov 2020

Fast Hardware Hides Many Sins original ↗

17 Oct 2020

Simple Tables From JSON Data With JQ and Column original ↗

8 Aug 2020

Weekend Maintenance as Chaos Engineering original ↗

8 Aug 2020

Blog Post #300 original ↗

3 Feb 2020

Cargo Culting GitFlow original ↗

22 Jan 2020

2019

Branching 0 – Git 1 original ↗

18 Dec 2019

Git is Not the Problem original ↗

16 Dec 2019

Choosing “a” Database, not “the” Database original ↗

13 Dec 2019

Automating Windows VM Creation on Ubuntu original ↗

9 Dec 2019

Arbitrary Cache Timeouts original ↗

18 Nov 2019

Validate in Production original ↗

14 Nov 2019

PowerShell’s Call Operator (&) Arguments with Embedded Spaces and Quotes original ↗

28 Mar 2019

CI/CD Server Inline Scripts original ↗

22 Mar 2019

Abstraction with Database Views original ↗

14 Mar 2019

The Perils of Multi-Phase Construction original ↗

8 Mar 2019

A Not So Minor Hardware Revision original ↗

4 Mar 2019

Feature Branches and Package Dependencies original ↗

1 Mar 2019

2018

“Hello World” Stories original ↗

12 Dec 2018

Overthinking is not Overengineering original ↗

7 Dec 2018

Feeling Isolated original ↗

12 Nov 2018

Proxy Weirdness – Socket Closed on 404 original ↗

8 Nov 2018

Always Reply Within Your SLA – Succeed or Abort original ↗

30 Oct 2018

Technical Debt – Conscious Competence original ↗

2 Oct 2018

Beware the Easy Fix original ↗

28 Sept 2018

Surgical Support Needs Surgical Tools original ↗

3 Sept 2018

Test Language: Behaviours, Not Examples original ↗

9 Aug 2018

TODO or TODO Not – Redux original ↗

24 Jul 2018

Delivery Anti-Pattern: Local Optimisations original ↗

19 Jul 2018

Optimistic SQL original ↗

12 Jul 2018

Support-Friendly Tooling original ↗

10 Jul 2018

Treat All Test Environments Like Production original ↗

6 Jul 2018

Test the Code, Not the Mock original ↗

25 May 2018

It Compiles, Ship It!original ↗

17 May 2018

The Perils of DateTime.Parse()original ↗

11 May 2018

2017

Wit Limits original ↗

15 Dec 2017

Network Saturation original ↗

6 Dec 2017

Fallibility original ↗

2 Dec 2017

Good Stories Assure the Architecture original ↗

20 Oct 2017

The User-Agent is not Just for Browsers original ↗

13 Oct 2017

Don’t Hide the Solution Structure original ↗

12 Oct 2017

Every Commit Needs the Rationale to Support It original ↗

11 Oct 2017

Refactoring – Before or After?original ↗

15 Jun 2017

Stack Overflow With Custom JsonConverter original ↗

12 Jun 2017

Are Refactoring Tools Less Effective Overall?original ↗

23 May 2017

Excel-style DDE Requests original ↗

18 May 2017

My Dislike of GOPATH original ↗

16 May 2017

Manual Mutation Testing original ↗

1 Mar 2017

Automate Only What You Need To original ↗

28 Feb 2017

LINQ: Did You Mean First(), or Really Single()?original ↗

28 Feb 2017

Dumbing Down Code original ↗

30 Jan 2017

Journey Code original ↗

26 Jan 2017

Weak and Strong Idempotency original ↗

24 Jan 2017

The Cost of Long-Lived Feature Branches original ↗

17 Jan 2017

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Surprising Defaults – HttpClient ExpectContinue original ↗

12 Dec 2016

Overly Prescriptive Tests original ↗

17 Nov 2016

In The Toolbox – Season Two original ↗

15 Nov 2016

Automated Integration Testing with TIBCO original ↗

14 Nov 2016

Tautologies in Tests original ↗

1 Nov 2016

Unmatched REST Resources – 400, 404 or 405?original ↗

27 Oct 2016

PUT vs POST and Idempotency original ↗

27 Oct 2016

Every Software System is Bespoke original ↗

25 Oct 2016

When Mocks Became Production Services original ↗

21 Oct 2016

Confusion Over Waste original ↗

20 Oct 2016

Sharing Code with Git Subtree original ↗

22 Aug 2016

Manually Forking Chunks of Open Source Code original ↗

22 Aug 2016

Estimating is Liberating original ↗

8 Aug 2016

Documentation, What is it Good For?original ↗

26 Jul 2016

Developers Can Be Their Own Worst Enemy original ↗

21 Jul 2016

Simple Language, Simple Process original ↗

18 Jul 2016

Alternate Way to Mock the Current Time in C#original ↗

13 Jul 2016

Mocking the Current Time in C#original ↗

7 Jul 2016

Don’t Use Side-Effects to Verify Behaviour original ↗

7 Jul 2016

Testing 101 - A + B = C original ↗

7 Jul 2016

Turning Technical Tasks Into User Stories original ↗

30 Jun 2016

Confusing Assert and Throw original ↗

24 Jun 2016

Mocking Framework Expectations original ↗

15 Jun 2016

Showcasing APIs – The Demo Site original ↗

2 Jun 2016

My Kingdom for a C# Typedef original ↗

2 Jun 2016

The Curse of NTLM Based HTTP Proxies original ↗

29 May 2016

The Tortoise and the Hare original ↗

23 May 2016

Debbie Does Development original ↗

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