by Emily Bache | Aug 9, 2008 | Experience Report
The “Programming with the Stars” final was almost the last event of the whole agile2008 conference, and Michael Feathers and I were up against Lasse Koskela pairing with Noah Jacobson. Our brief from Joshua and Jeff was “you have 8 minutes on stage....
by Emily Bache | Aug 7, 2008 | Experience Report
Today in “Programming with the Stars” our task was to do “Story Test Driven Development” (aka Acceptance Test Driven Development). With just 6 minutes on stage, this was a pretty tall order. Jeff and Joshua had suggested that we use tools like...
by Emily Bache | Aug 7, 2008 | Experience Report
We were up last this time, rather than first, and I was so impressed with the three pairs who went before us, they all paired really well and seemed to achieve what they set out to do. Joshua (one of the hosts) also decided to interview each pair just before they...
by Emily Bache | Aug 5, 2008 | Experience Report
Michael Feathers and I competed in the “Programming with the Stars” competition today, which was fun, if rather nerve racking. Our category was “TDD from scratch” and we chose to perform the FizzBuzz Kata in python. We chose that because we...
by Emily Bache | Aug 2, 2008 | Experience Report
I’ve just got to Toronto in advance of the agile2008 conference which starts on Monday, and I’m looking forward to it with great excitement and some trepidation. Until now it was the session that Geoff and I are running on Thursday that was claiming all my...
