Last year Bob Martin gave my coworkers and me some training on how to implement Test Driven Development.  Bob advocated for very small methods – even suggesting that methods often only have one or two lines of code.  If they started approaching five to ten, they could probably be broken down into separate methods. Yesterday, [...]

I’ve mentioned before that I think programming languages should have a REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop). Unfortunately, PHP does not have one natively.  However, I just discovered that Facebook has opened sourced a REPL for PHP – so now you can test out your PHP code without needing to write and run a script. Working in Python, I’ve [...]

What is the purpose of restructuring in an organization (not in code)? My answer is this: To put the right people in place with the necessary resources to lead the company. If a restructuring takes place and that doesn’t happen, all you’ve done is make a feel good move.  If after a restructuring the same [...]

I was reading Bill de hOra the other day, and he mentions Tesler’s Law. I’d never heard of Tesler or his law, so I followed the link. Turns out Larry Tesler is a pretty big name in the user interface field, as far as I can gather, although his law is lacking a Wikipedia page [...]

Can the amount of Nerf wars that occur in an office be an indication of the health of a company (or at least of employee moral)? The more Nerf wars that employees have is an indication they are happier. Why? It is a sign that people are being outgoing and embracing each other. As Nerf [...]