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Choosing my religion

8 months ago by pogodan on My hovercraft is full of eels.
I’d always been a spiritual person but my practices had been somewhat ad-hoc in nature. Then, in my late 20s, I met a group of people that seemed...

Detecting unspecified method arguments in Ruby

~1 year ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
Unlike some languages, Ruby has no real way (that I know of) to define overloaded methods. Instead, you can specify that certain arguments are optional...

Responsibility Traps

over 2 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
I recently watched a wonderfully insightful presentation by Eric Evans on Responsibility Traps. In it he describes a number of traps into which otherwise...

Plugins: Grab 'em while they're stale

over 2 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
I don’t like leaving unused code lying around, unused applications installed, unused clothes in the wardrobe, etc. As a consequence I’m often...

Random thoughts on our current Agile process

over 2 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
It’s late and I don’t seem to be able to sleep so for something to do I thought I’d jot down (ok copy from an email I sent out earlier...

We're Recruiting

almost 3 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
If you haven’t heard already, Cogent Consulting are recruiting. Cogent Consulting prides itself on the depth of its experience with agile software...

Less delicious, yet more satisfying

almost 3 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
These days, I spread my research and reading between Instapaper and Evernote. IMHO, delicious is essentially a big old shed with crap in it and no way to...

Problem Solving

almost 3 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
It occurred to me recently that I have this notion of programming as a process that involves breaking a problem down into a sets of smaller and smaller...

Collaboration

almost 3 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
I’ve heard the phrase “Excuse my poor code” (or words to that effect) a number of times recently. I’ve said it to myself about my...

No, Sleep, Till Bedtime

almost 3 years ago by Simon Harris on My hovercraft is full of eels.
Or at least until all those Twitter client developers have fixed their Twitpocalypse bugs. In case you didn’t know, a few days ago the ID range used...