by Emily Bache | Apr 2, 2009 | Conference information, Uncategorized
I’m looking for some really good coders. People who can write outstanding code, and yet know that however good they are they can always get a little bit better with a little practice, feedback and reflection. The kind of coders that attend a coding dojo and...
by Emily Bache | Mar 31, 2009 | Experience Report
At the speakers dinner the night before the conference: Ola Bini: “Do you have any actual code examples in your talk about clean code tomorrow?” Me: “No” Ola Bini: “Well, I’m sorry but that means I can’t come and listen to...
by Emily Bache | Feb 25, 2009 | Coding Skills
I am really interested to find out more about this concept of “clean code”, and in particular how it relates to programming language. To this end, I’m still chewing on KataArgs.My latest idea is to start from Bob Martin’s Java implementation,...
by Emily Bache | Feb 25, 2009 | Coding Skills
I’m having fun with this KataArgs. In my last post, I took a closer look at Bob Martin’s Java and Ruby solutions to it. Since then, we have tackled this Kata at a couple of GothPy meetings. (My coding dojo; the code is here.)Several of us did some more...
by Emily Bache | Jan 21, 2009 | Coding Skills
Over Christmas I finished reading the book “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin. I thoroughly recommend the book, which is highly practical, technical and well written. In it, Bob seeks to present the “Object Mentor school of clean code”, as he...
