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  • Bringing visibility to code quality metrics

    It’s often hard to measure whether or not the quality of your codebase is improving. It’s also very easy to become overwhelmed by software quality metrics. With so many, you stop paying any attention. One of the metrics my current team has been paying a lot of attention to is a “duplicate count”. It’s a measure…

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  • Git for Beginners – A Sample Workflow

    So here is my *very* happy path sample workflow, using local branches, with explanations for first time users of Git. See here for a worksheet with useful git commands and their uses and a sample workflow. This covers only what this post covers. You will aslo see references here to “git tf”. This is not…

  • Git for Beginners – Team Lunch and Learn

    Our team has just embarked on “Lunch and Learn”s. (A time for the team to get together over lunch and learn about something new). For the first one, my colleague Tom and I volunteered to teach the team to use Git… Our development team was previously all located in the UK, but we are about…

  • GHC 2012: How to Influence without Authority, and Why It’s Important

    These are some notes and thoughts from one of the sessions that I attended at Grace Hopper this year. Dictionary definition of Influence. – The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself. Inherently, you don’t need authority to influence. What do you need to…

  • GHC2012: Nora Denzel’s Keynote – Tips for staying in your technical career

    Go and watch her whole keynote speech here. It’s well worth it, and much better than I could ever attempt to summarise! See here for Nora’s bio and some of the quotes from her keynote. Nora’s keynote was funny and inspiring. She’s a great speaker. As well as talking about her own journey she focused…