Jack Cough on Software

So I know I talk a whole lot of shit about what I want to do, but I believe that I have it figured out now. All the work and reading I'v...

Today I got to pair with the ThoughtWorkers in our group. Being a former ThoughtWorker, we worked really well together. You could say we we...

I've said it before, and I'm not saying anything that people a lot smarter than me aren't already saying better, but I'll sa...

So admittedly, I haven't made much progress on my goals the past few weeks. I've been concentrating on CruiseControl. Unfortunately ...

The main problem with moving forward with legacy software is that it takes so much damn time to get classes under test. So when ends up happ...

I guess a week went by since I wrote last, about the presentation I was going to give on CruiseControl. It didn't seem like a week at al...

As a direct result of my own brainstorming on technology evaluation, I've decided to follow up on my own advice. I'm going to give a...

I'm going to keep a running tab for Approaches to Technology Evaluation in small companies with small budgets, and tight schedules. This...

Heres a thought that I'm sure many other people have had: Technology companies that are not dedicated to technology evaluation and adopt...

I have some thoughts on language adoption as I've done some preliminary work learning Scala, and having learned a bit of Ruby, and a lot...

Certainly IDE's have automated refactorings, and they are so nice, but I'm thinking the next generation software is going to: examin...

For a few reasons, I think I'm going to drop everything and learn AOP, and some DIF's including Spring, Guice. I need to do this for...

I'm having an issue with Dependency Injection that I need some clarification on. I have a static factory method that takes a parameter: ...

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code Test Driven Development: By Example (The Addison-Wesley Signature Serie...

Once again I want to try to maintain a list of goals. I fail miserably every time I try - my goals change so rapidly. Here goes: Learn Scala...

I hesitate to say this, but I really do think that very very few people should be allowed to write software at all. Of the hundreds of devel...

Today we went on a short hunt for good beer in Bangalore. Sadly, we found none. Martin Fowler's explains on his aboutMe page, "I e...

Ok, so here is a very quick intro on who I am and what this blog is all about. I'm Jack Cough, and I'm currently a developer at Simo...