The past few years years has seen less frequent wild camps than a decade ago. Recently, I’ve only managed yearly wild camps with Jason, generally in the snow. The main … Continue reading Borrowdale to Green Gable wild camp
Alongside the Derwent reservoir is a tourist information sign that describes Derwent village, and it’s flooding in the 1940s. Cheryl and I have passed it countless times, and we’ve frequently … Continue reading Flooded Derwent Village, Ladybower
Today, Cheryl and I completed our 2nd walk of our “ITV’s Britain’s Favourite Walks” challenge. As I’m participating in the Rawlinson Bracket sportive tomorrow, we decided to do a smaller … Continue reading Nine Ladies
So Cheryl and I thought we’d ease ourselves into our “ITV’s Britain’s Favourite Walks“ challenge by repeating one of our local favourites, Dovedale to Milldale. The seven miler is a … Continue reading Dovedale done!
The first post in this series covered my introduction to Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests (GOOS), and my first, overly challenging attempt at implementing its worked example in … Continue reading My first attempt at the GOOS Auction Sniper pt3
In the first post of this series I summarised my introduction to Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests (GOOS), and why I decided to revisit it in late 2013. … Continue reading My first attempt at the GOOS Auction Sniper pt2
This is the first in a series of posts about Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (GOOS) by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce. In this post, I describe my introduction … Continue reading My first attempt at the GOOS Auction Sniper
It’s common across organisations to employ multiple IT applications that need to share data. CRM, billing systems, and technical support portals might all need to access the list of customers … Continue reading Five reasons database integration sucks
Recently, I read a post that advocated purposely doing things in a way that wouldn’t scale, thus hoping to provide better insight into the problem domain, as well as deferring … Continue reading Don’t automate everything, at least at first
