Blog of Rob Galanakis (@robgalanakis)

Archive for November, 2014

Long live Slack, down with egotistical email

We use Slack for team communication at Cozy. I struggled with the transition. When I reflected on my struggles, it made me better understand what a destructive format email is for workplace communication.

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First, do no harm

From a wonderful post by Matt Williams about the type of business he is looking for: A Business Manifesto We are uncovering better ways of running a business and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: – People and interactions over profits and prestige...

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Behavioral testing is the bee’s knees

I have been doing Test Driven Development (TDD) with xUnit-based frameworks (like unittest and NUnit) for a number of years now, and started with RSpec in Ruby and Jasmine in JavaScript a few months ago. RSpec and Jasmine are behavioral testing frameworks that facilitate Behavioral Driven Development (BDD). BDD...

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