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Software developer with a drive for building quality products. Specification by Example, Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Unit Testing, Test Doubles, Web.

Auckland, New Zealand
Joined July 2008
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Replying to @steida
.@steida TDD is: approach a correct solution by induction over examples—which's much easier than deduction @ploeh @unclebobmartin @jessitron – at Mottram in Longdendale, England
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Huge thanks to @rapaul and @OrionHealth for providing a venue tomorrow for @akl_node #nodeakl
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Continuous Delivery means you ensure every change can be deployed to production. Continuous Deployment means you deploy every change.
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Replying to @BrandonPhilips
@BrandonPhilips @rapaul @mindginative Great talk on @coreoslinux deconstructed. Auckland CD meetup. – at Auckland, New Zealand
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The next meetup is up: Identity Management and Test Automation featuring @colinbowern and @mikeb2701 on Oct 8th meetup.com/auckland-software…
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Thanks to @tradumi, @robfe, @rapaul, and @kev_nz for the awesome talks tonight. And to @pushpaytech and @orionhealth for sponsoring.
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Next SC event is up - "Unit Testing" featuring @tradumi, @rapaul, @robfe and @kev_nz. 13th August. meetup.com/auckland-software…
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. @wrumsby rockin’ it with JavaScript #aklsc
[BOOK] I’m happy (& sad) to announce that my Software Craftsmanship book is finished. I hope you enjoy it leanpub.com/socra #socrabook
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Generating automated test data is essential for running automated test suites reliably. #citcon
Replying to @Jtf
@jtf telling us about Continuous Delivery Deployments by Contract at #citcon Auckland.
Four visualizations of Continuous Delivery, by Nhan Ngo continuousdelivery.com/2014/…
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IMHO, a constant sense of crisis is how so many code bases become unworkable and programmers become unemployable,
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The Global Day of #Coderetreat 2013 starts in just a few hours in New Zealand!!!! View the progress at live.coderetreat.org #gdcr13
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My mum and dad bought me Lego Technix, a railway set and a marble run. But if they hadn't... youtube.com/watch?v=UFpe3Up9… <3 @goldieblox
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Epic waterslide in Western Park today. Raising awareness for gimmiefive.co.nz
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Pop up arcade is happening now! Come hang out & play some great games! We're in the @BreadNButtrLetr basement til 4
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Replying to @xagile
. @xagile If the customer doesn't _WRITE_ (or at least collaborate in writing), it's not ATDD. ATDD is specification not verification.
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Full house @AssurityNZ for the first #continuousdelivery meetup presentation - lucky to have @gareth__evans as the speaker.
"Therapeutic Refactoring" by @kytrinyx is awesome. Tomorrow I'm going to be refactoring something. » j.mp/14LtCGG /ht @wrumsby
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