Every now and then you need a good reason to interrupt the normal flow of head down, hyper-focused, highly diligent work efforts. The other day happened[..]

In Part 1: Pairing is not Always Practical, we explained how the costs of pair programing sometimes outweigh the benefits. Here are a few things we've[..]

Intentional Pairing

Practical pairing is the notion that when we pair, we do so intentionally. It’s about being conscious in our decisions to wield[..]

I have often felt the same way Brandon does in his post, The world runs on bad software, although I've come to believe that the frustration he is[..]

Tonight I had the opportunity to give a talk on Javascript code organization and patterns at the local GRWebDev user group. As a take-away from that[..]

I was happy to see on the twitter-sphere that The RSpec Book was reviewed over on Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper. If you didn’t know, I was one of the[..]

Calling all developers and designers from the West Michigan community. It’s not every day we get the opportunity to impact the lives of teens right here[..]

This past weekend I was spending time with my brother and his family. One of the things I love about visiting with them (besides their adorable kids) is[..]

I’m a really big fan of Evernote. It lets me loosely organize things I find important without much hassle. Not only does it support basic text notes, but[..]

Recently while reading I found a venerable chinese proverb that reminded me of the our team here at MHS: