Month: January 2010
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
I have just finished reading Michael Feathers’ Working Effectively with Legacy Code. The book gives a lot of very concrete examples of how to improve code and make it testable. To my tastes he is exaggerating the whole code without test is legacy code thing, which in the naïve reader might lead to the impression…
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Unconditional Success
Before I forget it completely, I have to post a link to Nick Williams’ Unconditional Success. This book is outrageously funny. We kept a copy on our desk and would open it at random pages to reinvigorate the team spirit.
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Gog Magog Walk
Today Arne and I ventured out to explore rural England. We did the Gog Magog Walk from Arne’s “Walks around Cambridge” guide. The first thing that caught my attention was this chair: Another typical feature of the English landscape is the open fuse box: Also we learnt what a copse is: And more importantly that…