by Emily Bache | Jun 22, 2011 | Experience Report
I’ve just spent 3 weeks teaching a class of 11 students about automated testing, as part of a one year course in software testing. The course is organized by the local “Kvalificerade Yrkes Högskolan”, KYH. (loosely translated: Skilled Trade...
by Emily Bache | Jun 21, 2011 | Experience Report
This is the second time I’ve attended Nordic Ruby, you can read about what I thought last year here. This year I enjoyed the conference more, for several reasons. There were some small changes in the way it was organized, (on a Friday and Saturday instead of...
by Emily Bache | May 10, 2011 | Coding Skills
The classic description of TDD that most people know is the 3 rules by Bob Martin. I think his rules are a very succinct description, and for a long time I’ve just relied on them, together with a picture of “red-green-refactor” to describe TDD to...
by Emily Bache | Feb 28, 2011 | Conference information
The programme for DynCon has just been published, and the whole conference is about dynamically typed languages. There are talks about all sorts of languages, old and new, and I think it’s going to be really interesting to get people together from all these...
by Emily Bache | Jan 30, 2011 | Review
If you’re running a coding dojo, or if you’re an individual who likes to practice code kata, there are a number of websites which aim to help. In this post I want to review some of what’s out there. http://codekata.pragprog.com/ The idea of the code...