Don Roby

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Feb 28	revised	What was the first hierarchical file system? added 26 characters in body
Jan 31	awarded	Informed
Dec 2	comment	How do I prove or disprove “god” objects are wrong? Run away! You don't want to work there.
Dec 2	comment	How do I prove or disprove “god” objects are wrong? Ask them for documentation of God objects as good practice.
Oct 10	comment	Need explanation of hexagonal architecture Nothing will protect from a rogue developer adding things where they don't belong without tests.
Oct 10	answered	Need explanation of hexagonal architecture
Sep 12	awarded	Yearling
Jun 8	awarded	Constituent
Jun 8	awarded	Caucus
May 23	comment	Was classical BASIC ever used for commercial software development and if so how were limitations overcome? There was a joke that RSTS/E was written in BASIC, but it really wasn't. Many sysadmin utility programs supplied with the OS were written in BASIC though.
Feb 28	awarded	Nice Answer
Feb 22	awarded	Civic Duty
Jan 19	answered	Development setup for TDD. Is it correct?
Jan 11	awarded	Good Answer
Dec 29	comment	Choose code design effort or laziness in Bank world Change your organization or change your organization. -- Martin Fowler
Dec 29	comment	Choose code design effort or laziness in Bank world @Martijn Verburg - Do you think TDD leads to unreadable code?
Nov 23	comment	The equivalent of a “Memorandum of Understanding” for programmers? A contract perhaps? Voting to move this to programmers.
Nov 1	comment	Finding a definition for this anti-pattern What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
Sep 12	awarded	Yearling
Sep 6	comment	How do you tackle really bizarre errors that keep you puzzled for more than 10 hours? Someone really ought to make a life size cardboard cut-out of Jon Skeet.