Don’t add features, solve problems

If you have not watched Rich Hickey’s talk on Hammock Driven Development you should do so now. I’ll wait right here whilst you do. Great talk wasn’t it? Although delivered ten years ago, many of the problems Rich describes I still encounter today so in this post I will discuss the key points from the […]

Hello WordPress.com

After several fruitless attempts to contact my previous web host in order to add HTTPS to this site I gave up and moved this blog to WordPress. Additionally I was getting increasingly bored with the management of a self hosted WordPress site with challenges such as deciding which versions of WordPress the hosting company would accept, […]

Some recent podcast episodes

I have listened to these episodes multiple times now and have been able to extract more value and extra insights from them on every playback. I hope you find them enjoyable as much as I have. Akimbo: No such thing (as writers block) Seth Godin’s podcast is superb, this episode on writers block is my […]

The incremental commit Anti-pattern

This is a far more opinionated post than usual. It is not meant to inflammatory, my goal for this post is to have something tangible that I can point to the next time an Oracle Developer thinks they want or need to “do” incremental commits. In this post an incremental commit is defined as code […]