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Book Review: Growing Object-Oriented software guided by tests

Finally I finished reading Growing Object-Oriented software guided by tests [http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Guided-Tests/dp/0321503627] , by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce. We ran it as a reading circle at RemoteX [http://www.remotex.se] but I think I’m the only one that will finish it, and I

Book Review: JavaScript the Good parts

Markus Andersson [http://twitter.com/#!/markus_marib] recently recommended a book to me called JavaScript the Good parts, by Douglas Crockford. As we were discussing inheritance around JavaScript it came up, so to demonstrate to power of my Kindle I purchased it so we could check out the specific example

Book review: Continuous Delivery

I recently finished reading Continuous Delivery [http://continuousdelivery.com/] by Jez Humble and David Farley. I have to say that the book was quite exiting. The first parts showed how to implement a continuous delivery pipeline and where automated tests fit in. It also explained how to setup the automated

Doing Continuous Delivery with Hudson and Git

Right now I’m reading the book Continuous Delivery [http://continuousdelivery.com/]. Excellent reading and even though I’ve only read around 46% percent of it, it’s quite thought provoking. I’ve written earlier on how we at RemoteX [http://www.remotex.se] have set up our build environment

Review: The Power of Pull

I recently finished reading The Power of Pull [http://www.facebook.com/powerofpull] a book describing how the world-wide adoption of the Internet is changing how we generate value as individuals and in organizations. The pull that the book talks about is a different kind of pull than what I’

Stress and TDD

In Blink the author describes that there is an optimum peak of performance in regards to stress. What happens after that peak is reduced performance, inability to act on details and tunnel-vision so on. In programming this means we will see the end goal, often the finished functionality according to

Blink

I recently finished reading Blink. It’s about how we are programmed to make quick decisions. The driving force behind prejudices, but also our inherited ability to make quick and accurate decisions. It’s funny, the book was mentioned in an episode of “In treatment”, and 60 seconds later I

Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams

I finished reading Agile Testing, on the recommendation of Mary Poppendick. It’s a thick book, and it took me longer to read than I originally thought it would. I found it too long, to be honest. It covers both testing and agile principles. For me a better fit would

The Checklist manifesto

[https://www.morten.software/wp-content/image33.png]When Mary and Tom Poppendick was in Stockholm a few weeks ago, Mary recommended the Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. And now I finished reading it. In general it was a good read. Since it’s American it tends not to be very

Getting things done

I just started reading “Getting things done” – by David Allen. I’m roughly 25 pages in, but now I have to stop to write this blog-post just to clear my mind. The reason for why I started reading the book is that I found Tracks though mor.ph and started