Agile processes have become the darling of the industry, and certainly there is good reason for this.  They do tend to facilitate communication and development practices that lead to better software.  However, paralleling the transition to agile is a more insidious transition: a push towards open office spaces. The argument goes that open is good, […]

The blog LispCast has issued a call for any stories you may have illustrating the power of Lisp: the relevant post is here.  I’m curious to hear any stories you may have as well.  Stories are always good, as they pass down experience, and I’m looking for all the experience I can get.  Why am I […]

I mentioned a while back that I was going to write more about the training I received from Bob Martin and I’m finally fulfilling that promise. Bob had us do an exercise where we modeled a working coffee maker with certain requirements.  Upon being presented with this problem, my first reaction was to think of […]