Happy Friday,This will be a brief update, as I'm currently in the midst of packing for a week-long trip with the family.I've had a whole bunch of conversations that are in the realm of build vs buy, and I feel that earned a few words in this week's n...
Happy Friday,For those of you who don't know, I keep bees as a hobby. This year, I had some big ambitions with my hives to raise queens for the first time, and wind up with eight or so hives.Things did not go the way I planned.Now, raising queens is...
Happy FridayIf you've ever watched any of my talks, you'll see that I love games. Not just video games, but card games, board games, and even role-playing games. Well, especially role-playing games.If you aren't sure what role-playing games are, you...
Happy Friday,Around two or three times a year I'll experience an urge to learn a new programming language. Usually, I resist and wait until the feeling passes and I realize learning a new language is not a good use of my time. Well, I fell to that ur...
Happy Friday,Sometimes you do something you know you shouldn't. For me that means trying out Clojure. If you don't know what Clojure is, it is a LISP with a die-hard following. It is so different than any other language that I'm really having to work...
Happy Friday!One thing I've been trying to do more of is read research papers on topics that I am passionate about, have data on, or deal with regularly at my clients. A specific topic I like to focus on is testing.I remember early in my development...
Happy Friday,I used to speak at conferences around 6 times a year. That was before COVID. I always enjoyed speaking at conferences, but it certainly had its downsides. First, the cost of travelling to conferences added up quick. Second, the whole app...
Happy Friday!Guess what? I'm doing a talk on April 8th, and I'd love for you to attend! My talk is going to try to tackle how to introduce TDD to a non-technical person.You should attend, it's free!One of the reasons I chose to talk on this subject i...
Happy Friday,I've been busy switching up some of my writing on my site, which is challenging, and I hope it pays off. My previous strategy was to write frequently about whatever I felt like and hope that would turn into people reading my site, joinin...
Happy Friday,This week you'll get a short and sweet email from me.Every so often I do a talk at a conference or for an online group and one of those dates is coming up.On April 8th I'll be giving a talk on how to introduce Test-Driven Development to...