by Emily Bache | Dec 16, 2010 | Opinion
The world need more and better programmers. Jason Gorman recently wrote this post encouraging people to start offering software apprenticeships, as an alternative to computer science degrees. He writes: “our computing education in [the UK] is preparing students...
by Emily Bache | Dec 9, 2010 | Conference information
I’ve just been appointed to the role of Industry Programme Chair for XP2011, which will be held in Madrid in May. I’ve been to 7 of the previous 11 XP conferences and I am so pleased to be asked to contribute to the success of the conference this year by...
by Emily Bache | Dec 3, 2010 | Experience Report, Opinion
Last night at GothPy we had a play with Django, a web application framework for Python. I’m fairly familiar with Rails, so it was interesting to see a different take on solving the same kinds of problems. I downloaded Django for the first time when preparing for...
by Emily Bache | Nov 1, 2010 | Code Kata
I was at the local Ruby User Group last night, and I coded up KataMontyHall (see below) as a prepared Kata in front of the group. I got some great comments and feedback while I was coding, and I think the solution I ended up with was better than any I had created by...
by Emily Bache | Oct 7, 2010 | Conference information, Experience Report
On the wednesday of Agile Testing Days it was my turn to speak, and together with Fredrik Wendt we presented “The Coding Dojo as a forum for teaching Test Driven Development”. The talk was mostly aimed at developers, and the basic idea is to encourage them...
