Software Best Practices

Some of you may be aware of Kent Beck's Four Rules of Simple Code that state simple code: Correctly runs (and passes) all the tests Contains no duplication ( OnceAndOnlyOnce and The DRY Principle ) Clearly expresses all the ideas/intentions we needed to express (reveals all intent and intends all...

Almost a year ago I posted an entry on the " 5 C's of Agile SCM Codelines ". This time I'm posting on the 5 R's of Agile SCM Baselines . I think these are as follows (note that most of these are not unique to Agile/Lean): Repeatable -- The steps to create the corresponding Build...

In an earlier blog-entry reviewing the book Code Craft , I mentioned the classic paper by Peter Miller entitled " Recursive Make Considered Harmful " ... Anyway, I recently ran across a bunch of webpages that examined or revisited the issue. I thought several of them were worth sharing, so...