Software Crafty Articles That Inspired Me

Here's a set of random things that inspired me over the years. There is some other set of random things that have inspired me that are also things that didn't occur to me at this instant.

J.B. Rainsberger

• http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/blog/archives
• http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/2010/10/16/integrated-tests-are-a-scam/
• http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/the-four-elements-of-simple-design

Nat Pryce & Steve Freeman

• Growing Object Oriented Software 

Uncle Bob

• SOLID Principles
• http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/publishedArticles.html (look for the craftsmanship article)

Gary Bernhardt

• http://blog.extracheese.org/archive.html
• Destroy All Software Screencasts

Michael Feathers

• http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com/
• http://michaelfeathers.typepad.com/michael_feathers_blog/2011/01/the-thing-of-software-development.html

Jay Fields

• http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/06/testing-one-assertion-per-test.html
• http://blog.jayfields.com/2008/01/testing-one-expectation-per-test.html

Fowler

• http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html
• Lot's of other stuff on his site... but good luck, it's terrible to navigate it

Joel Spolsky

• So much good stuff here, especially from around the 2002 era -http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

Oh and The Pragmatic Programmer & Domain Driven Design.