Mark Pearl

October, 2014

SQL Antipatterns by Bill Karwin, The Pragmatic Bookshelf

I have worked with relational databases for a number of years, but have never bothered to really ‘get’ in to relational databases best practices. This year I decided it was the year I would put some effort in.

September, 2014

Story Mapping

Identify personas Move from a one dimensional backlog Creating a story map is a collaborative effort, it is a tool to get everyone to discuss the needs. It is not something to be done in isolation.

August, 2014

User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton, O'Reilly

I’ve been involved in agile development for a few years but was only recently introduced to the process of story mapping - after reading Jeff’s book I’m feeling more and more like story mapping has been a big missing link.

Useful Develpment Tools

Below are a list of tools that are useful for software development. I have categorized them based on the language I saw them being used in - this doesn’t exclude them from possibly working in other languages.

TDD Stuff

Does TDD pay off? Useful links to TDD Stuff No TDD Unit Tests by Kent Beck

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