Category Archives: Programming

The Rise of Centaur Programming: AI and Human Collaboration

Posted on August 14, 2025 by Duncan Butler

We’ve All Been Vibe-Coding We’ve all been vibe-coding—riding the wave of AI-assisted development with flashes of brilliance and bursts of productivity. But as the dust settles, it’s clear: this approach doesn’t scale. It doesn’t architect business-grade applications. AI can’t replace … Continue reading →

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Job Board: Adding a Job

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Duncan Butler

A little bit of planning before we start to code the board, to start we need to be able to add, delete and search the jobs in the job board, this is the minimum functionality we are going to need … Continue reading →

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There Is No State Only Events

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Duncan Butler

I had got to the next feature, “Get an existing basket”, this was going to be a simple save the basket on creation, load it by id, return 404 if not found type of blog post, I even had the … Continue reading →

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The First Test

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Duncan Butler

We are at the point of writing our first test, but first lets review the whole test first pattern, that is the hopefully well known RedGreenRefactor although it seams to be well known I think there has grown up a … Continue reading →

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A Bit of Up Front Planning

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Duncan Butler

They do say that in Agile there is no up front planning, well I like to do a little bit, just so I know the direction I should set off, and the bit of space it gives allows me to … Continue reading →

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Test First Development

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Duncan Butler

Last time I wrote about how we are increasing the numbers of tests and how they are damaging our code.  Another problem we have that is stopping us getting the full benefits of refactoring code is the proliferation of mocks … Continue reading →

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Too Many Tests

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Duncan Butler

So here we are, there are now so many layers of tests that can be performed on a unit of code that even developers asking questions on stack overflow can’t keep them in line, is it a unit, iteration, functional, … Continue reading →

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Team City PowerShell and Parameters

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Duncan Butler

There are times when its really annoying, you get technology x up and running on your development machine and then try to integrate it into the wider enterprise system and fall at what is really the first hurdle, this has … Continue reading →

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Building the Right thing Right

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Duncan Butler

Its what we developers aim for and what the business hopes for, doing anything else costs money both at the time of development and into the future with maintenance and the cost of change. A few weeks ago I introduced … Continue reading →

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SpecSalad and Tables

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Duncan Butler

I started a new home project the other day, a small website and started to write the features that I wanted, now I knew that SpecSalad supported tables in the usual Scenario Outline format as I had used them when … Continue reading →

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