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I think that the best part of writing a blog is to get comments from my readers. Because I have learned a lot from my readers, I want to “reward” the best comments, help you to learn new things, and (hopefully) encourage people to leave more comments. The rules are simple: I select X best […] Read More about The Best Comments of June 2015

I think that software development is more than just a job. I see myself as an artisan who is trying to get better every day. The "easiest way" to do this is to find a few good tools and find the answers to these questions: When should I use the tool X? How should I […] Read More about 12 Tools That I Use for Writing Unit and Integration Tests

We have learned that "clean" unit tests might not be as clean as we think. We have done our best to make our unit tests as clean as possible. Our tests are formatted properly, use domain-specific language, and avoid excessive mocking. Nevertheless, our unit tests are not clean because: When we make changes to the […] Read More about Writing Clean Tests - Small Is Beautiful

If our code has obvious faults, we are very motivated to improve it. However, at some point we decide that our code is "good enough" and move on. Typically this happens when we think that the benefits of improving our existing code are smaller than the required work. Of course, if we underestimate our return […] Read More about Writing Clean Tests - Trouble in Paradise

Yesterday I published the list of the most popular blog posts that I wrote in 2014. I also promised to choose my favorite blog posts and publish that list on my blog. This year I decided to select blog posts that helped me to learn something new. Here are my favorite blog posts that I […] Read More about My Favorite Blog Posts of 2014

The year 2014 is almost over, and this means that it is time to publish the most popular blog posts that I wrote during this year. I selected these blog posts by using Google Analytics. I selected all blog posts that were published during 2014 and picked the blog posts that had the most page […] Read More about 10 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2014