Welcome to Hot Needle of Inquiry

As careful readers know, I’ve had my web site moved to Apache from Windows. (Long story.)

Since Chet and I implemented my blog in .NET, it no longer works. Clearly something has to be done. I’ve decided to bring up the new blog on Wordpress. This is that beginning. Stay tuned.

Any and all advice on how to make the Wordpress setup, or the blog in general, better, will be gratefully received. As always, email to ronjeffries at acm dot org and include [ron] as part of the subject.

Thanks, and stay tuned.

Developer Quality! … and Certification?

Uncle Bob Martin comments on “Developer Certification WTF?” in a recent blog entry. Let’s talk a bit about developer quality, and some things that are being done about it.

Choose Tools to Increase Skill

Choose your tools wisely, that they allow for the development of your skill.

Problems with Acceptance Testing (combined)

Jim Shore has written a short item with the above title. Let’s think about it a bit.

Book Review: Shop Class as Soulcraft

Author Matthew B. Crawford is a physicist, has a Ph.D. in political philosophy, and is a motorcycle mechanic. What’s not to like? Recommended for practitioners, managers, executives.

What is really essential?

Jens Meydam asked “What do you really care about in Scrum?” I decided to answer, instead, “What do you think is really essential in Scrum-style software development?

First, two things are fundamental:

Ship running, tested software every two weeks, or,

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