by Emily Bache | Aug 17, 2009 | Coding Skills, Uncategorized
I’ve been doing some work lately creating automated functional test suites using Selenium RC to simulate user interaction with a web GUI. I discovered quickly that the tests you record directly from selenium are rather brittle, and hard to read. In order to make...
by Emily Bache | Aug 5, 2009 | Coding Skills, Review, Uncategorized
Gathering ideas for my new dojo :-)Ivan Sanchez wrote about starting a coding dojo, and he rekons a Randori is best with 10 people or less. We will be more than 10 at JDojo@gbg. He suggests a prepared kata in that case. That might be possible. His favourite starting...
by Emily Bache | Aug 3, 2009 | Coding Skills, Experience Report
I’m planning to start a new dojo this autumn, called JDojo@Gbg. I was inspired by the guys at Responsive in Linköping, who I met at XP2009. They have been running a dojo for some time now, and find it is an excellent way to introduce programmers from their...
by Emily Bache | Jul 4, 2009 | Experience Report
I just wrote a report about europython on my company blog.
by Emily Bache | Jul 2, 2009 | Autobiographical, Experience Report
Today at europython we listened to a keynote about Bletchley Park. This was the centre of British and allied codebreaking activities during the second world war, and where the first digital, programmable computer was built, Colossus. We heard about the current...
