Pair Programming as an interview tool
Jeff Langr talks about his experiences in Pair Programming Observations. Some interesting perspectives on pairing developers of different skill levels, the benefits to different stakeholders and best practices when pairing.
At Thycotic, we practice pair programming on a daily basis. I have also used pair programming as an interview technique as Jeff describes - this actually [...]
Adding CAPTCHA to FlexWiki
Blog spam sucks but being hosted on weblogs.asp.net doesn’t leave a lot of options at the moment. Blog spam couldseenas a personal attack on your good nature and an attempt to mess with your small expression outlet to the rest of the world? Wiki spam on the company wiki however,is outright war!
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Legacy TDD: Don’t write all the missing tests
A new project for Thycotic requires major enhancements to a legacy application.There are no existing tests. Where dowe begin?
This is the first post in a newblog series on the issues as they are tackledin this project. The usual advice you receive in thissituation is: Don’t write all the missing tests.
Why not? Several reasons …
You probably [...]