Jesse Hill

Test Driven Development: Resistance Is… Perplexing?

If you're resisting the switch to TDD, here are a few reasons to take another look: It's faster (no kidding!), higher quality, and far more flexible.

Developer Tools

Embrace Your Keyboard – 4 Ways to Work More Efficiently with Less Wrist Pain

Development causing wrist pain? Here are four ways to use your mouse less and your keyboard more.

C & C++

Working with Custom Return Values in GoogleMock

Tips for setting return values in GoogleMock expectations.

Project & Team Management

Scouting Your User Stories

If you're plagued with poor estimation of user stories, appoint a "scout" — someone who'll take responsibility and properly prepare for planning meetings.

Web Apps

Using Marionette.js with Backbone

Marionette has saved me a bunch of time I would've spent writing boilerplate to manage my views and compose nested structures.

Web Apps

A Lightweight “CMS” Using Ruby and Google Drive

What do you do if your content authors don't know HTML? Have them enter content into a Google Drive spreadsheet, and use a Ruby gem to convert it. Here's how.

Culture

I Am Not a Resource!

Developers are dramatically more productive when you treat them like creative individuals who work in teams, rather than inputs to a production process.

Jesse Hill

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