So I got up on a Saturday, pondering what routes and buses would need to be taken to go from Belltown to Fremont here in the Seattle area. Because I live here and have a transit oriented mind (I do write Transit Sleuth also…) I know which buses come where that would make a trip... Continue reading →

Ok, I have run into the anti-TDD arguments on and off over the years. Generally it comes from two primary sources. The person who doesn’t want to do TDD no matter what, nor test, nor learn anything about the latest and greatest tech, they simply want left in their corner of the universe to code... Continue reading →

Lately I have been interviewing people for prospective positions in the company I work for. In the various questions that I and others pose during these interviews one popped up as a prospective Kata. The challenge is really quit simple, “Write a method that would take a int and check if it is a prime... Continue reading →

I’ve always pondered good interactions from other developers. What makes it easy, or not so easy, to work with another developer? Here’s a few of my thoughts on these engineering types. The Uber Ego Engineer. Just be curious and interested in the work if you are or aren’t really well versed in something. The last... Continue reading →

This is my first video screencast. Please bear with me a bit while I blunder through this and a few more. At some point I’m sure I’ll have down a professional glean! 😉 For this Kata Screencast I went with an extremely simple problem statement, which is generally a single step Kata that has multiple... Continue reading →