Steve Freeman

I bumped into an old colleague recently who told me her tale of woe.

She’d been consulting for a while with a small business that provides quite a successful online service. The company had been bought out and, for a while, she improved their naive development practices while coping with complexities such as a new CTO […]

My son has discovered Pokemon cards and now all I hear about is “Look, this one’s got a Damage of 7 and an Energy of 10.”

“Really? You don’t say.”

I have no idea what he’s talking about and it all seems overpriced.

That said, there’s one important difference, which is that my professional effectiveness doesn’t depend on […]

Yesterday, during the XpDay Sampler track at QCon, Keith Braithwaite presented the latest version of his talk on measuring the characteristics of Test-Driven code. Very briefly, many natural phenomena follow a power law distribution (read the slides for more explanation), in spoken language this is usually known as Zipf’s Law. Keith found that tracking the […]