A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about unit testing and its importance in developing quality software. You can find that here. A topic that is seen a lot when discussing unit testing is the idea of “mocking” objects (I’ll explain this in a second). I didn’t go into this in my unit testing post... Continue Reading →

Throughout my career (and life) I've been on many different teams. Obviously, this implies that I've been a teammate to others and had many teammates of my own. I bring this up because yesterday I had an interaction with a current teammate of mine that made me think "Wow, what a great person to work with."... Continue Reading →

SPOILER ALERT: Yes. Code without tests is such an old idea that in his book "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" (written in 2004!) Michael Feather defines "Legacy Code" as code that is not accompanied by unit tests. This should be common knowledge by now in the software community, but I still am running into developers... Continue Reading →

If you know me personally, you know that I love to read. It started in grade school where the elementary school I attended offered points and prizes for those who read (and passed tests on) the most books every month. I remember I graduated with the 3rd most points in the history of the program (something... Continue Reading →

Not a day goes by anymore where you don't hear someone mention "The Cloud" in some context. Cloud services and solutions are all the rage these days. Why though? What do these solutions offer to businesses that they don't already have?What are the advantages of "The Cloud"? Well, as it turns out, there are many. Below... Continue Reading →

This is one of my all time favorite dialogs between a developer and his wife over a subject (HTTP and REST) that is the backbone of the web. The truth of the matter is that many professional developers have had the same questions the wife has asked. I think this dialog completely clears up the... Continue Reading →

Software applications are getting more and more complex and each platform for developing applications these days seems like its operating on a higher and higher level of abstraction to hide that complexity from the developer. In particular, when I say "a higher level of abstraction", I am talking about "managed languages". "Managed code" is a term coined by... Continue Reading →

I am currently (at the time this article was written anyway) working for a large (6,000+ people) Fortune 500 company. However, this was not always the case. Actually, I started my career (straight out of college) for a small biotech startup (Assurex -- very cool and very advanced personalized medicine company BTW that you may want to check out).... Continue Reading →

Sadly, I am coming to the end of my twenties (I plan to be a centenarian so it's okay). I've learned more in my twenties than I ever thought would be possible. I am grateful for the people I have met and experiences I have had along the way. I don't know where I would be... Continue Reading →