Azure CLI is AWESOME

I'm sitting in my hotel room after the [deliver:Agile2019] conference ( https://www.agilealliance.org/deliveragile-2019/) which was fantastic. I highly recommend attending it next year. I have a little side project I'm trying to use to learn Azure [https://azure.com/] and Azure Dev Ops…

Filler!

This post is absolutely a "I don't have a post" filler post. MicroObjects I'm working on a couple of refactoring "kata" type projects. One is for MicroObejct technical practices. I'm trying to do them all as "FizzBuzz" but.…

Technical Practices: No Enums

Quality-wise of this post; not gonna lie - Probably will be low. It's 7am and I'm low on posts. This isn't a bubbling pressing issue on my mind. I don't need to stream my thoughts to work through something... What I do…

Beneficial Results - Simpler Code

Simpler code. Don't we all wish the code we deal with could be simple? Simple is hard. Simple is challenging. Simple is complex. A short letter is much harder to write than a long one. Why do you think my blog posts are so damn wordy? I don&…

Refactoring: Where to start

I've had a lot of discussions around applying the MicroObject technical practices [https://quinngil.com/uobjects] to legacy code. "These practices are clearly great for new code, but how can we work them into our existing code?" Even if it's not your definition of…

Thoughts: Testing Without Mocks

James Shore [https://twitter.com/jamesshore] has a post, Testing Without Mocks [https://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Testing-Without-Mocks.html], that I've recently been introduced to. Skimming through the introduction of the post, it looks like the goals of this align well with what MicroObjects give us in terms…