Chris Hedgate - Latest Comments

Re: My code is better than your code

swingtrading2 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:26:35 -0000

Nice one. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

Re: New beginnings

chrishedgate — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:18:48 -0000

Josepj, thanks for the heads up. However, it works when I click it. Does it not work for you?

Re: New beginnings

Josepj — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:42:11 -0000

As a side note, your link to your profile on linkedIn is not working.

Re: Duoblog: What is the secret of great presentations?

alovak — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:26:42 -0000

Chris, all advices are right!

Guys you can get even more brilliant ideas/advices from Garr Raynolds book "Presentation zen" or you can view his presentation here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DZ2vtQCESpk

Re: Instantiating a WPF control from an NUnit test

Eric — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:48:59 -0000

Works like a charm! Thanks!

Re: Testing events with unit tests

chrishedgate — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:23:48 -0000

Seth, I am not quite sure what you mean. In the example above there are two real types, SubscriberUnderTest and PublisherUnderTest. The tests verify functionality in those two types, only. The fakes are used as stubs and spies to drive and verify the behavior of the real types. Do you see things differently?

Re: Testing events with unit tests

Seth Flowers — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:52:51 -0000

Whats the point of unit testing _only_ mock objects. I expect to see at least one real type being tested, the rest being mocks and interfaces that the mocks implement. If all the code is in mock objects, the test is worthless.

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Re: Databinding a WPF control to something else than a static property

raisa — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:36:47 -0000

please, i need your help...can you send me all the code of this example

Re: Duoblog: What is the secret of great presentations?

Aslam Khan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:54:15 -0000

Hmmm, I never thought of presentations as being scalable. This is a great way of thinking about your content. And it allows you to play around with the equilibrium too (more is less, less is more).

And yet another wonderfully crazy and creative experiment by the master of experimentation :-)

Re: Duoblog: What is the secret of great presentations?

cperrone — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:54:08 -0000

Excellent post, Chris. Your suggestions are absolutely sound. The Beyond Bullet Point book, for example, helps a lot in creating such logical structure. With that, you can have the same talk scaled from 5 minutes to 45, with a clear and useful guideline for your first 5 slides.
I consider it a solid starting point and effectively is the script that follows the "logical outline" that I mentioned before.
Good, my next post is going to start from there and mix cards a bit ;-)

Re: Pairing should be the norm

Marcus — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:48:03 -0000

We use pair programming quite extensively at uni - it's a great way to teach each other - but I guess in my opinion it is not so much about finding ways why we should pair program, rather it sometimes feels like the end-results is far away. Hm. That is of course dependent on what the end-result is, learning or a method/class/prototype. Pair programming is fun for many reasons but it is sometimes difficult to see the productivity increase. I guess that is one reason we miss out on pair programming all too often.

Great reflection!

Re: Team anti-pattern: The Helpful Teacher

Tobias Fors — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:10:43 -0000

Hi Chris! Thanks for the post. Another good read on the topic is Chris Argyris's article "Teaching Smart People How to Learn". It's available on Harvard Business Review's web site for a few bucks.

Re: New beginnings

Chris — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:57:18 -0000

Steve, Staffan, thanks for your support and encouragement. In fact, that is precisely what we did tonight. We went out, raised a couple of glasses and reflected on the great time we have had these years. Thanks!

Re: New beginnings

Steven M. Smith — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:35:51 -0000

Chris, It may sound odd, but I suggest celebrating. Raise your glass and toast your colleagues for helping you grow. Toast how this experience has helped you grow. Toast how this experience will make you more empathetic to organizational change and the need for agility. Toast the events that made you aware that you needed to go in a different direction. Toast your skill at being congruent. Cry and laugh. It's all connected. I wish you and your colleagues all best. Each of you is a great person. Warm regards, Steve

Re: New beginnings

Staffan Nöteberg — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:23:41 -0000

Chris, I am pretty sure that you also have lots of ideas, what to do next. Let me know if you want feedback on any of them.

And good luck with your next step!

Re: Retrospective Exercise: Doodle Checkin

Portia Tung — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:01:57 -0000

Hi Chris,

This is a great entry! It's fun, creative, educational, to-the-point and based on real experience.

I bought my Doodle pad last Christmas and have been waiting for the opportunity to use it. Thanks to your inspiration, I'll be using it with my teams because doodling together is so much more fun than just on your own =>

Keep writing!
Portia

Re: Instantiating a WPF control from an NUnit test

Sunit Joshi — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:51:09 -0000

Thanks Chris...this helped me too. My failed tests were driving me nuts earlier !!

Re: Setting the contents of a WPF RichTextBox

Steve — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:03:43 -0000

Thanks! Saved me a lot of time!!

Re: Great Developers

raj — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:26:25 -0000

hi chris,

i am developer from India.

i really want to improve my OOPS design knowledge.

i watched your ppt. it is nice.

can you suggest me some good blogs tutorials for oops design and patterns. if its your custom made. that will b really great.

Re: From Good To Great Developer - Spring Tour 2009

Chris — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:20:49 -0000

Johan, I agree completely that the participants are already on their way. That is why I tailored the talk to help these people, the greats that want to help others become great, figure out what they might be doing wrong and how I think they should work to achieve that goal.

Re: From Good To Great Developer - Spring Tour 2009

Johan Idstam — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:37:48 -0000

I think that anyone choosing your talk among all the others at TechDays already is, or is on a path to be, great at whatever they are doing. We need arguments and inspiration for our casue, but I think we all have at least on person nearby that would have gained more by seing your talk in person.

So I assume 'they' are the ignorant incompetent people outside of the room. ;)

Re: Setting the contents of a WPF RichTextBox

Dan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:53:16 -0000

It's very helpful for me, thanks for sharing :)

Re: From Good To Great Developer - Spring Tour 2009

Chris — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:23:35 -0000

Hi Kristoffer!

The book I mentioned was Implementation Patterns, by Kent Beck. I think it is a great start for a development team to use as the foundation of a common coding guideline. Read it in a study circle format, discuss it and decide what you agree upon. That will be your initial coding guideline. Make sure to discuss this once a month (or how often you want to, just do it recurrently).

Good luck!

Re: From Good To Great Developer - Spring Tour 2009

Chris — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:17:17 -0000

Thanks Gösta. As you found out later, he was indeed a great developer. I will have to take more care to make that really clear at the beginning. Thanks for the advice, it is really helpful to me.

Good luck with the knowledge-sharing in your organization. Glad that I could give you some inspiration.

Re: From Good To Great Developer - Spring Tour 2009

Kristoffer Larsson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:57:24 -0000

Hi!

I also attended this presentation at the TechDays and liked it a lot. You mentioned a book about Java design patterns, or something of the kind, during the session. Perhaps written by Kenneth Beck (sp?) or something? What is the title of the book and who wrote it? :) You recommended everyone to read it.