The NoEstimates Movement

There’s a lot of interesting talk and thinking, going on under the heading of #NoEstimates. I think it’s great, and I’m all for it. To do #NoEstimates, people will need some help …

Value is What You Like

Robert Pirsig’s protagonist “Phaedrus” said “Quality is what you like”. We talk a lot about “value”.

My aim here is to suggest to you that value is what you like.

Manual Testing Does Exist and It Is Bad

Are “manual” versus “automated” useful terms? As a matter of fact, yes, they are …

Codea Game – 5

It’s time to work a bit on the “model” for the game. I envision an array of “stories”, each able to answer how long it will take to do it, and how valuable it is. The answers to these questions …

Codea Game – 4

It’s time to tell you a bit about the point of this little game we’re working in.

Codea Game – 3

Let’s take a look at what we have so far, and see what the code is trying to say. Does it seem like early days for that? Maybe not … why not start thinking right away? :)

-- Game Spike

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Codea Game – 2

In this episode, the code tells us to move toward a subordinate drawable object, the Polyline. We listen.

Codea Game – 1

I’m starting to work on an application in Codea, a Lua system for the iPad. Here’s the first spike.