by Emily Bache | Apr 30, 2010 | Coding Skills
I’ve been working full time in Ruby now for about a month, and I think I’m beginning to get the hang of it. In many ways it’s not so different from Python. I took some of the code I talked about struggling with in my last post, and set about...
by Emily Bache | Apr 6, 2010 | Coding Skills
Last week at Scottish Ruby Conference I chatted with Brian Marick about software design. The week before that, he had been in Göteborg for Scandinavian Developer Conference, and had spent a morning pair programming with Geoff on TextTest. I took the chance to ask...
by Emily Bache | Mar 17, 2010 | Experience Report, Opinion
As I mentioned in my last post I chaired a fishbowl discussion at SDC2010 with title “Should a professional developer always use Test Driven Development?”. I was delighted that the invited panelists Michael Feathers, Geoff Bache and Andrew Dalke all turned...
by Emily Bache | Mar 4, 2010 | Conference information, Opinion
I’m really looking forward to Scandinavian Developer Conference, and in particular the fishbowl discussion I’ll be moderating on the Tuesday at 10:30am. Presenting their views will be Michael Feathers, Andrew Dalke, and Geoff Bache, and the topic under...
by Emily Bache | Feb 21, 2010 | Coding Skills
In my current assignment, I’m taking the role of “developer-in-test”. I’m working in a large distributed development project, which is building new functionality on a large existing codebase. In practice, I work closely with the developers in...
