We all know the old adage … “Quality, Features, Time: pick two”. It’s a useful reminder that trying to squeeze too many features into too little time will inevitably impact quality. It’s also a useful reminder that focussing only on quality will lead to a reduction of the rate of feature development. And it even… [Continued]
My mother always told me about the carpenter who would measure twice and cut once. It didn’t make any sense to me as a kid, but I soon understood exactly what she meant the day I built my first set of shelves. Hrm. If only I had listened to her sooner … It seems that… [Continued]
Hah. So here’s something of a Nose gotcha that caught me out the other day, and hopefully you won’t make the same mistake as me! In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, Nose is a neat Python test discovery and runner. Essentially you can point it at your Python source code and it… [Continued]
Janis was the kind of woman you didn’t mess with. She had the typical East End[1] attitude of love for “family” and aggression to anyone who “crossed the line”. A cockney by birth, she came up through the ranks starting as a young girl in the typing pool, and ended up forty years later in… [Continued]