Design & Development Principles - XP - Quality Circle - Part 2

This is the second post of the Quality Circle. As a reminder; CIRCLES! This post is going to talk about the Green Circle. Another reminder is the tight interconnection between all of the components. Quality Circle The quality circle is what is what I consider the aspects of the day…

Book Review: The Nature of Software Development

TL;DR: I loved the book. Go read it. [https://pragprog.com/book/rjnsd/the] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the past few years working with a team of XP devs who've been using the XP practices for well over a decade each has taught me a lot. These amazing colleagues have helped…

VBM on Android - Top Stories Full Data

I've thought a bit about my TDD limitations on Android and my discovery of the GoLang-y nature of interfaces. For the TopStoriesAdapter.ViewHolder to be tested; we can create a wrapper for other controls... Now I understand why Android didn't do it originally; performance; TDD was new... Lots of stuff.…

Design & Development Principles

What is this post? What I'll attempt to lay out here has been said with eloquence that I'll never be able to approach; detailed in ways I will never come up with; and I assume by people who've forgotten more about good software development than all my experience has ever…

VBM on Android - Pair Programming

This is a quick post about some of my recent experience developing the HackerNews Reader app. Not pairing sucks. It'll be posted later this month; but I spent 3 evenings; probably 12 hours total; making zero progress on a blog post. I got stuck and couldn't figure out what was…

SonarQube on Azure

Objective Install SonarQube to display metrics from my random projects. Mostly as experiments to apply to activities at work. Research Where can I install it? Based on my minor internet research; it looks like SonarQube will only run on an actual machine, VM, or Docker. I did a little looking…