Steve Fenton

Technical teams are often guilty of asking the customer to make a technical decision. As Kent Beck said in respect of Extreme Programming;  technical people should make the technical decisions and business people should make the business decisions. Very often, people think that  this is a territorial statement that says “stay away from my decision”,  […]

After watching Uncle Bob playing a symphony of refactoring across his keyboard at Dev South Coast last night, I decided there was one short-cut I didn’t have and couldn’t live without: Widen Selection. Widen selection, also known as expand selection, allows you to move your current selection outwards to the next lexical block. This is […]