Software Should be Free

Dec 13 2024 28 ep. 31 mins 10
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Tim Abell & (sometimes) David Sheardown look for ways to help you solve your problems with computer things. Send us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/ssbf - https://0x5.uk/ - https://twitter.com/davidsheardown

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Leaders and teams for successful software projects

Dec 13 2024 32 mins  
A piece on leadership and teams needed to create great software projects and overcome the organisational immune system, all without any fan noise, and an intro from Mark.Unicorn project bookDevOps handbook (hint, DevOps is *not* a separate team or job title, that's just Ops)Culture - The Fearless Organisation bookMeLE Fanless Mini PC Quieter 4CDead Sea Effect

Confident Contracting with Neil Millard

Jul 18 2024 177 mins  
A flowing discussion with Neil about the life of a contractor, before during and after, with some important mental health lessons hard learned along the way. Neil shares advice for people at every stage in the contracting journey, from tentative first steps to options for going beyond contracting, along with his own journey.Neil: https://www.neilmillard.com/LinkedIn https://www.lin

Guest Just-5-Mins on outside-in-testing (cross-post)

May 13 2024 17 mins  
David kindly had me on as a guest on his wonderful "just 5 mins" show to talk a bit more about outside-in-testing and answer some of his questions after my last episode on this show on the matter.- Just Five Mins! Episode 78 - Outside in Testing with Tim

The importance of fully automated outside-in tests

Apr 04 2024 49 mins  
A follow up to my blog post on test automation - with an angle that I think is missing in so much of the software industry - outside in fully automated tests from the perspective of the user is THE most important thing - plus don't let your tests see your internals, not even for setup and teardown. (01:53) - automated tests blog (05:20) - axiom 1 - user perspective (07:50) - axio

Writing the sln-items-sync dotnet tool

Jan 13 2024 17 mins  
timwise.co.uk/2024/01/13/new-tool-sln-items-sync-for-visual-studio-solution-folders/justfivemins.com (David's podcast)buttondown.emailtimwise.co.uk/subscribe

Git merges, regression testing, hexagonal architecture blog-to-rss-to-email

Oct 25 2023 29 mins  
https://timwise.co.uk/2023/10/20/use-kdiff3-for-merge-conflict-resolution/https://timwise.co.uk/2023/10/20/git-what-do-'base'-'local'-'remote'-mean/https://timwise.co.uk/2023/09/28/what-is-hexagonal-architecture/https://timwise.co.uk/2019/10/14/merge-vs-rebase/https://timwise.co.uk/subscribe/https://github.com/rustworkshop/gitopolis/tree/3a8eb6e868a4e42370e8f4d587ad0e8525e9da2e/tes

Beware "Fast Talkers" and "Pattern Obsessives" - evolve your architecture

Jun 30 2023 16 mins  
- beware fast talkers, as Ray Dalio says in Principles https://www.principles.com/ (as a tweet: https://twitter.com/RayDalio/status/1599056902637248514 )- beware pattern obsessives (any pattern, architecture, SOLID, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Outside-in testing, you name it, someone wears it as a badge)- evolve your architecture - YAGNI, but do think ahead- currently available for c# co

Morning journaling, moving to tech lead, right-to-represent idea

Dec 08 2021 16 mins  
Regular update and thoughts; the benefits of morning journaling, focussing on tech lead roles and a new right-to-represent side-project idea. I share some tips from how to stay sharp technically when in a tech lead or other interrupt-driven role.

Working identity and a recovering contract market

Nov 24 2021 16 mins  
A quick update on coaching, contracting, side-projects and learning front-end things.

The new direction and some email and calendar tips

Nov 05 2021 11 mins  
Tim is going to do more digital delivery (contract), while defending time for building useful things for podcasters and being involved in that space, all while being good at email and being a great family man.This episode was livestreamed with video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzcWCdVrbTEhttps://savvycal.com/articles/inbox-zero/https://charmconsulting.co.uk/https://busine