FrazzledDad

Bleary-eyed ruminations of a work at home Father.

Monday, February 20, 2023

T-Shirt Sizing: Don't Overcomplicate It!

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We spend way too much time hassling around with estimating our work. That time would be far better spent improving the sizing of work rathe...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Hide Complexity

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So, so much of good system design is abstracting out complexity. So, so much of good testing is understanding where the complexity is and po...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Keynote Talk: You Got This

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Last week I was fortunate to have been the keynoter at DevSpace Technical Conference in Huntsville, Alabama. DevSpace's chairman Chris ...
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Friday, September 14, 2018

A New Technical and Leadership Blog for Me!

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I decided to move my technical and leadership postings over to a new blog on my Guidepost Systems site . I'm doing this in the hopes o...
Monday, August 27, 2018

My Test Credo

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A few years ago I scribbled down some thoughts to myself as I was struggling with my brain and a frustrating project. I pinned these notes...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Interview on A Geek Leader Podcast

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Somehow I forgot to post here that John Rouda was kind enough to invite me on his A Geek Leader podcast some time back. We talk about leade...
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Stop Rationalizing Bad Coding Practices

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Rant. (Surprise.) Want to work alone for long periods without testing or running your code? Want to avoid doing TDD or at least test-immedi...
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Friday, August 10, 2018

Understanding WebDriver Components

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Understanding WebDriver Components [UPDATE]  This post is based on a submission I made to the official WebDriver documentation in early Sp...

Slides from ThatConference

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I spent the last week at THATConference in Wisconsin Dells, WI. It's a wonderful conference somewhat along the same lines as CodeMash, b...
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Jim Holmes
I'm the owner/principal of Guidepost Systems. I help lots of great folks figure out what works and what doesn't in the world of delivering quality software -- something I'm very passionate about. I'm also a Father trying to remain sane while trying to build great software, herd my kids around, fix school lunches and handle the yardwork. (And roast great coffee!)
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