Steve Freeman

It’s been a busy week. Michael Feathers has an interesting post on the nature of Test-Driven Development, to which Keith has responded. I think Michael overstated my position on “most” people (it was probably a bar discussion) but over the years I’ve seen a lot of TDD code that doesn’t look right. Incidentally, Tim Mackinnon, […]

In preparation for my (first) tutorial at XP2008, I’ll be arriving at Shannon airport at about 7:30, Tuesday night. If anyone wants to share a ride to Limerick, please let me know. Comment on this blog if you don’t have my address.

The BBC is broadcasting Harrison Birtwistle’s new opera “The Minotaur” this weekend. Personally, I’m very pleased they’re doing this since it’s a tremendous work and the production was first rate. On the other hand, look at the schedule.

7:35 pmThe MinotaurPart One: World premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s new opera from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. […]

Scary security story about personal data not being flushed on iPhones at http://www.zdziarski.com/

A few days ago, I posted a discovery in that personal data remains intact (in deleted portions of the file system) following a full iPhone restore. As it turns out, Apple themselves may not have been aware of this. Thank goodness, otherwise identity […]

Can we hope this is the first sign of rolling back Whitehall’s government by targets?

Four police forces are to abandon government targets and allow officers to decide whether to make arrests.

From BBC news