Timothy Klenke

Show me the code: https://github.com/TimothyK/Retail My last post discussed a high-level software architecture breaking down an application into user…

This is a 2 part blog post on code reviews. This first post is on why and when code reviews should be done and some of the soft skills needed. The second…

So I gave a talk at the Edmonton.NET User Group on an introduction to automated testing. And of course in this introduction I gave a list of reasons why…

In my last post I stated that the only guideline for writing good software is to make it simple. There are a number of very specific code analyses that…

Over the years, from time to time, I have received criticism over the release notes I have written. That’s fair, I certainly have written some crappy…

Kent Beck’s XP Simplicity Rules (aka Four Rules of Simple Design) are a prioritized list of rules that when applied to your code generally yield a great…

In this post I’m going to outline a few common methods that can be used to increase the coverage of of your test suite. This won’t be yet another post on…

This is the second of two posts on some common strategies for approaching the job of writing tests. The previous post covered test-after workflows where…

So I’m going to do a three posts on Pair Programming. This first post discusses, from a business point of view, why Pair Programming is a good idea. The…

This is the last in a three part post on pair programming. The first posts described the benefits of pair programing and how to make pairing part of your…

In my previous post I stated that NuGet solves a number of problems when working with open source libraries. These problems were finding, downloading,…

So I want to write a post on how to create your own NuGet packages. Before I do that I think I better first do a prerequisite post on what NuGet is, how…

In my previous post I described my feeling on why it is so critically important to develop a good user story. However I didn’t go into much detail on how…