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JoeJag

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Software development blog of Joe Wright

Engineering management / careersTesting / QASoftware / engineering practice

’10’15’20’25
Posts
55 from 3 Jul 2009 to 23 Aug 2026
Posting
now and then (1 in the last year)
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personal blog
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2026 1

  1. Your Agent Is Not the Model

2021 4

  1. I'm AWS certified? Should you trust me?
  2. How to go from zero to productive in 40 minutes on a brand new Mac
  3. Tech Test Marking Guide
  4. Synthetic Monitoring with Cypress

2020 1

  1. Two months with Powershell on a UNIX

2019 3

  1. Visualising organisation relationships with the 4S model
  2. Agile in a box
  3. The bug that led to strike action

2018 13

  1. Three little questions to save your new job before it starts
  2. Hiring graduates when you have no idea what you are doing
  3. The origin of soft skills
  4. Three constraints for introducing mob programming
  5. A mob programming adventure
  6. Tracking where your time went with Lego workstream visualisation
  7. Your two blank line budget for tests
  8. Lean Coffee and the Kay Rule
  9. Making BDD more than tooling
  10. Make Selenium tests illuminating by saving the browser log and a screenshot
  11. Four qualities that underpin an effective test suite
  12. The graduate decision
  13. The ideal team size

2017 2

  1. Technical Debt is sometimes a mess
  2. Revealing the design of FizzBuzz

2016 3

  1. Selfless Facilitation
  2. The Text Editing Kata
  3. Anti-If: The missing patterns

2015 3

  1. How many eyes do you want on your code?
  2. Reflections on running a guided conversation conference
  3. Guided Conversations

2014 2

  1. My favourite Zsh features
  2. Choose one: Feature Toggles vs Authorisation

2013 8

  1. Diversity of format at tech conferences
  2. How to get started with Continuous Integration
  3. Move your mouse pointer with Java
  4. What's your problem?
  5. Everyday Git Aliases
  6. An example driven guide to regular expressions
  7. Agile is more about efficiency then effectiveness
  8. Host a static web site on Dropbox for free

2012 2

  1. Continuous Delivery - A Better Software Deployment Strategy
  2. How to send a raw HTTP request via Java

2011 6

  1. Checking JMX with JRuby
  2. A DSL for collections in Java
  3. Start a web server from your pwd using Ruby and Thin
  4. Creating a simple Java RESTful service using Jersey and Maven
  5. Renaming MP3 tags with Ruby and the mp3info gem
  6. Adding colour to your unix prompt (PS1) and some handy ls aliases

2009 7

  1. New language features in Java 7
  2. Coding Dojo: Example Katas
  3. The Coding Dojo
  4. Continuous Integration: An Introduction
  5. Using Ruby to parse an Excel document
  6. Automatically resolving jars for the Java classpath
  7. Using Ruby as an AWK replacement