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...
by Emily Bache | Jan 14, 2009 | Coding Skills, Experience Report
At agile2008 I attended a session with Dan North about Behaviour Driven Development. Someone on the agile sweden mailing list was asking about it, so I decided to write up my notes here. Most cellphone and computer software is delivered late and over budget. The...
by Emily Bache | Jan 10, 2009 | Story
The project manager was obviously a little irritated. “By this stage of the pre-study, we really should have the requirements a little more nailed down than this. That’s two new requirements since last week. Or what does everyone think?” he looks...