Chris James articles - 33 total
HTMX is the future
You don't have to put yourself through hell to make great web applications. We can use battle-tested, boring technology to create great experiences
Reduce WIP by practicing trunk-based development, rather than pull requests
Pull requests tend to drive up the amount of work you juggle at once (WIP), which hurts productivity. Consider using trunk-based development instead.
The TDD Thinking Hats
Have a clearer thought-process when applying the TDD method to improve your chances of success
The Why of TDD
If you have a better understanding of the why's of TDD, you'll have a better chance of practicing it effectively and getting more value from it. Pro-tip, it's not about test coverage!
How my website works
How i've used simple, robust tools to build a nice website
Start naming your test doubles correctly
A lot of developers are very vague when they name their test doubles which makes tests needlessly more difficult to understand. This posts hopes to address that issue and help you improve the readability of your tests
Work 2019: Building a brand new team
Building a team from scratch
Gamifying Continuous Integration
What CI is (and isn't) and how i've gamified it to improve the CI-ness of my team
The carbon footprint of your website
How badly are you destroying the future?
The ghost of Henry Ford is ruining your development team
A post about mass and lean manufacturing and how it relates to software development
Go back to basics with MVC
A lot of people don't really understand MVC. It's simpler than you think and has nothing to do with folders
Learn Go with tests - Roman Numerals and Property Based Tests
Practice TDD with the Roman Numerals Kata and get an intro to property based tests
How to go fast
This article is for anyone who works in software and wants to keep life simple, less stressful but st...
Learn Go with tests - Context
Learn how to cancel long running processes to help you manage resources
Learn Go with tests - Error types
Learn how to improve the API of your code by introducing your own domain specific error types
How to test a function that uses os.Exec?
How do we test functions that call out to the operating system?
Tis the season to write Clojure
Discover the simplicity of clojure while writing a Secret Santa program
Why TDD?
The relationship between software engineering, refactoring and TDD
Software engineering fetishes
Some things in software development become conversation-killing, thought-ending truisms. Let's re-evaluate them.
The Web I Want
The web is supposed to be accessible to all but flavour of the month techniques and over-complication is ruining everything
Fun with Bash
Use time-tested tools to process data quickly with bash
Learn go by writing tests: Reflection
An example of using reflection in Go
Property-based testing in real life
Applying property-based testing in a real world context
Property based testing in Go
An intro to property based testing
Why you should deploy on Friday afternoon
Take ownership of your software by automatically pushing to live
Learn Go by writing tests: Synchronising asynchronous processes
Learn about how to manage multiple asynchronous processes
Learn Go by writing tests: Mocking
Learn about mocking in Go whilst practicing TDD
Learn Go by writing tests: Dependency Injection
Learn about DI in Go whilst practicing TDD
Stop worrying about job titles
I've seen a few posts on here about job titles, what they are, what they mean and how do you get them...
Learn Go by writing tests: Pointers and errors
Learn about pointers and errors in Go whilst practicing TDD