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[Gary Lasker <gary.lasker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/08/2011 11:55 AM, Michael Nelson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Michael Vogt <mvo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 08:08:19PM -0500, Gary Lasker wrote:
>>> Hello Software Center devs!
>> Hey Gary,
>>
>> [..]
>>> And make no mistake, the idea here is to increase development velocity
>>> by increasing code quality and knowledge sharing, etc. It is most
>>> definitely *not* intended to slow things down with heavyweight
>>> processes. In fact, the changes for our team will likely be fairly
>>> minimal as we already have all of the important pieces in place in our
>>> process today (code reviews, automatic unit tests, etc.).
>>>
>>> Further, we, as a team, have the freedom to implement the processes in
>>> such a way as we see fit to make them work best for *our team*. The idea
>>> is to *increase* the enjoyment and satisfaction we all get from our work
>>> on Software Center. If at any point anyone feels like the opposite is
>>> happening, let's talk about it right away and fix it.
>> [..]
>>
>> Thanks for this great summary of the changes. I can only second what
>> you wrote, I want this to be something that we enjoy doing and were we
>> feel that folllowing these principals of peer review and good test
>> coverage gives us better code as a result (and better code leads to
>> more fun, right ,)
>>
> 
> On that note, read jml's "How to feel better (or, some tips on refactoring)":
> 
> http://code.mumak.net/2011/11/how-to-feel-better-or-some-tips-on.html
> 
> which is not strictly about writing tests, but how to continuously
> improve your code so you can enjoy programming more :)
> 

Ah yeah, this is awesome, thanks for the pointer, Michael! I'm going to
grab at least the refactoring and probably also the TDD book that Jono
mentions at the bottom of his post.

Again, thanks!
Gary