Every morning at our team’s standup meeting, we have a section called “Interestings”. This is where anyone on the team can share interesting work-related articles, videos, podcast episodes, etc.

In response to my recent post, Building Blocks, Rob Levin commented in part:

I’m currently reading User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton. In a sidebar, he includes this gem:

As I mentioned in my Getting Testy series, I typically practice a form of outside-in testing, or as Justin Searls has been calling it, Discovery Testing.

In recent months, I’ve written about original ideas and brilliance.

Last week, I attended my second RubyConf. I really enjoyed the conference again this year. The talks were excellent, and I got to meet many old and new friends.

As I post this, I’m about to give a lightning talk at RubyConf 2015 entitled “Inconceivable!”

On a recent project, we needed a UI element that allows multiple selection of items from a long list of multi-word options. We wanted to optimize the workflow for data entry as that was the primary function of this part of the application, so the ability to find entries by typing a few characters was very important.

What is brilliance? What skill or quality does a person have that makes them brilliant in the eyes of others?

Consider a method that takes a number of optional parameters. Such a method is often a code smell, but there are times when it is the best of several ugly options.