Who (the heck) Am I?
I'm Tim Ottinger. You may already know me. I'm a long-time developer, agilist, XPer, CI/CD, teaming/ensemble, TDD, and general software delivery specialist. I wrote the second chapter of Clean Code . I am the originator and co-author of Agile in a Flash with Jeff Langr, and I wrote Use VIM Like a Pro . I'm mentioned in the "acknowledgements" sections of many other books on Code Craft, Agility, Design Patterns, because I’ve been heavily involved in the tech community and have done reviews and edits of their pre-publication materials. I worked with "Uncle Bob" Martin at Object Mentor (twice). With his company, I taught physicists at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center how to improve software design for high-energy physics. I worked with companies like Caterpillar, Xerox, and many others. I worked with Ian Murdoch (who founded the Debian Project) in his company, Progeny Linux Systems . We created software to aid in the creation of custom commercial Linux ...