by Emily Bache | Jun 19, 2010 | Autobiographical
I had fun for a few months programming Ruby at eLabs, but now I’m moving on*. What exactly I’ll be doing next is not entirely clear. My plan, at least initially, is to work as an independent consultant specializing in automated testing and agile coaching....
by Emily Bache | May 25, 2010 | Experience Report, Opinion
Why are there so few women programmers? That’s a big question. How about a related one that’s slightly smaller: Why do so few women go to programmer conferences? Nordic Ruby on Twitter Nordic Ruby was clearly appreciated by many of its attendees. See...
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...
