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Make It A Good Day

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Don’t just wait for a good day to “happen”. I’ve been able to make some attitude changes and make good days.

Moving to Agile: Inertia

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Switching to an Agile process shines the light on a developer who has been successfully hiding his lack of work, but what can I do to change his behavior?

Known Defects and FindBugs

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I ran into a bit of a quandary the other day. I had to modify a piece of legacy code in our system — one that has no tests written against it.

Is Refactoring Really That Scary?

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I got admonished at my new job for coding practices that have become second nature to me. Is aggressive refactoring really that scary?