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Thu Feb 11 11:08:00 EST 2010

by Christian Gruber

Rachel Davies, for whom I have incredible respect, posted this post called "Shu-Ha-Ri considered harmful". In it she points out that the basic notion of [full article]

I don't believe in "Business Value" (sort of)

Wed Aug 26 15:52:00 EDT 2009

by Christian Gruber

Ok, let's define terms. I'm not against value-oriented thinking. in fact, I'm all about the customer. I think whatever can add value to the customer or the output the customer wants (presumably software, in my case), the better. But this term "Business Value" has crept in to the Agile community, ...[full article]

Make Fake/Stub objects simpler with proxies.

Sat Jun 20 18:41:00 EDT 2009

by Christian Gruber

I recently wrote a convenience component. It's a Java dynamic proxy creator with a default handler that simply delegates any methods called on it to a provided delegate, throwing an UnsupportedOperationException if such a method isn't implemented. Why? Because I was sick of writing huge Fake impl...[full article]

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