Patterns build good habits

Introduction People want to improve their lives. They want to improve their code. We start new things and end up giving up on them. We start new diets and eventually stop following them. We learn new ways to do things, try them for a bit and go back to our old ways. Why do we…

20,000 steps away from the sea

Recently I travelled to England and Germany to speak at Agile Testing Days 2014. It was a wonderful conference and the trip gave me a chance to do a lot of walking to see a lot of sites. I was wearing my new Moto 360 which among many other things keeps tracks of how many…

What are you eating?

I love eating.  There are stories told about the amount of food I have consumed in one sitting. Some of them are true. For most of my life I have eaten what I thought was healthy food. Often I would read about a report, or hear what someone’s doctor said and reevaluate my eating solution.…