On Being A Journeyman Software Developer

An Emu, get it? Programming communities are full of inspirational people. People who do great things. Not only great things, but specifi...

Yesterday I made a mistake . Without thinking, I put up a mean tweet about some code that Heather Arthur wrote. And I want to apologize. ...

or, why I actively replace ActiveSupport::Concern with Ruby in codebases I work on tl;dr I don't use ActiveSupport::Concern. Unli...

I recently participated in an awesome Kata Battle at 8th Light against the worthy adversary, Craig Demyanovitch . The kata was the wonderfu...

The other day, I was involved in a conversation with a group of developers. Several of them work at a large company whose product is built o...

I was honored to be asked to give the closing talk at the Software Craftsmanship North America conference (SCNA) last year. It was a fantast...

Recently, Michael Feathers has been investigating the idea of mining all the data in our source code repositories to start finding informat...