by Emily Bache | Oct 2, 2008 | Story, Uncategorized
What is the quality of this codebase on a scale of 0 – 100? Zero means “perfectly designed, clean code” and 100 means “total spaghetti, impossble to make changes”.Without hesitation, Andreas answered. “70”.Andreas was standing...
by Emily Bache | Sep 27, 2008 | Story, Uncategorized
My cousin held out the keys to his flashy looking sportscar and said “Do me a favour. If you crash into something with my car and it’s nearly written off, but not quite. Please back up then hit it again, harder, until it really is written off”. I laughed...
by Emily Bache | Sep 5, 2008 | Review, Uncategorized
For those of you who read Swedish, I have a new post up on jsolutions.se. The gist of it is that I usually read infoq to find out what is going on in the world, and I’ve just realized how biased it is compared with other Java news sources.
by Emily Bache | Aug 27, 2008 | Conference information, Uncategorized
I’m very excited to announce that I’m helping to organize a conference in Göteborg in March! This is going to be so cool. We’ve booked the biggest venue in town (Svenska Mässan) and are inviting high profile speakers from around the world. There will...
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....
