Manuel Klimek

Are you a developer who dreams about a better software development process in the organization you work for? Maybe you read something about fancy practices on your favorite blog or mayhap you even touched one of those old-style paper collections called books? Do you have some concrete ideas on how to improve, but don't know [...]

When I arrived at work today I fired up Outlook and checked my mail. I found five mails from our auto-build server telling me that the build broke. Since we introduced test driven development and continuous integration only a short time ago this was not out of nowhere - the build usually breaks at least [...]

Do you estimate the time it will take you to finish your task in the mythical unit called "perfect engineering day"? Have you ever wondered why?

The first human beings had a hard time. When they weren't on edge due to the Neanderthals who constantly tried to get their unprofitable genes into the big pool again, they had to deal with a real challenge: self reflection.
When I exercise my introspectional skills I often think fondly of my ancestors. I imagine their [...]

Ed carefully tiptoes towards Karl's desk. "Hey Karl", he cheerily announces: "I still need this time estimation for the Globster project!".
"Yea, right... That was the Irish Coffee feature for their coffee machines at the management offices, wasn't it? I just have to read some specs to figure out what I have to do - give [...]

"What are those five lines of code for?"
"I put them there because ... wait, um, they're, let me see ... they sum up x, y and z and calculate some sort of squared nearest neighbor... yep..."
"So, what do they do?"
"I just told you..."
"See, I just found that I couldn't understand those lines in the current [...]