by Emily Bache | Jun 13, 2008 | Autobiographical, Uncategorized
What do you have to do to get me to come and work for your company? Well, it seems a couple of free lunches and some good geeky conversation works pretty well. Of course, it helps if you’re also offering me an exciting mix of software development work, high...
by Emily Bache | May 13, 2008 | Experience Report, Review, Uncategorized
Last night a group of eight python hackers were drawn into a darkened conference room on Odinsgatan “Odin’s street” in order to exchange little-known information and to take part in obscure coding rituals. To open proceedings, Andrew Dalke shared...
by Emily Bache | Nov 21, 2007 | Autobiographical, Uncategorized
Miranda was born last Thursday, a healthy little girl 53cm long and weighing 3.77kg. Her big sister Karina, (now three and a half) and Geoff and I are all doing well.I hope to be at home with Miranda for about 6 months, so I don’t expect to write much here for a...
by Emily Bache | Nov 5, 2007 | Coding Skills, Uncategorized
Test Driven Development (TDD) is a way of programming where you start be specifying a (failing) test, write code until it passes, then refactor. Repeat. This technique has been hugely valuable and adopted widely since it was introduced to the world by Kent Beck and...
by Emily Bache | Oct 25, 2007 | Coding Skills
At the XP2007 conference, Geoff and I presented a workshop entitled “The coder’s dojo: Acceptance Test Driven Development in python”. (Geoff also presented the same workshop at agile2007). We had three aims with this workshop, the first was to use the meeting...
