Analysis
One of the most useful classes I took in college was an introductory statistics class that was intended to discourage Poli. Sci. majors from continuing in their course of study (I was one at the time). The interesting thing about the class is that it included study and analysis of research as a core part of the class. We learned how to put a study together, how to develop controls, and different formulas used to confirm whether we had statistically significant results or not.
So when Phil Haack announced that Research Supports the Effectiveness of TDD I was more than...
In one of his characteristically long essays, Bill Whittle expounded at length on the genius of John Boyd. The essay is political and not necessary to understand my point, so follow the link at your own risk.
At any rate, Boyd proved a tactical theory of aerial combat by repeatedly winning a challenge to the best Air Force pilots in Nevada. The challenger would start by having Boyd in a perfect kill position at thirty thousand feet over the Nevada desert. Once the challenger yelled "Fight’s on!", Boyd had 40 seconds to reverse their positions.
Winning that challenge repeatedly and consistently...
Bob Lee, creator of Google’s Guice project (the Dependency Injection framework for Java) has twice left comments here urging me to check out his talk introducing Guice. I resisted this because a) I don’t do Java and b) I figured I’d had enough with a later video recommended by Nate. This afternoon, I broke down and watched it and I’m glad that I did.
It turns out that the things that grated on me from the first Guice video I viewed came mainly from Kevin Bourillion—mostly unfair comparisons to alternatives and boosterism. Bob is very personable, open and seems honestly intent...