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A little while ago, Fredrik Wendt and I put together a little survey and sent it to all the people we know who have attended coding dojo meetings here in Göteborg. There are several groups in the city which run these kinds of meetings from time to time. We wanted to...
I had fun for a few months programming Ruby at eLabs, but now I'm moving on*. What exactly I'll be doing next is not entirely clear. My plan, at least initially, is to work as an independent consultant specializing in automated testing and agile coaching. I'd also...
Why are there so few women programmers? That's a big question. How about a related one that's slightly smaller: Why do so few women go to programmer conferences? Nordic Ruby on Twitter Nordic Ruby was clearly appreciated by many of its attendees. See tweets like this:...
I've been working full time in Ruby now for about a month, and I think I'm beginning to get the hang of it. In many ways it's not so different from Python. I took some of the code I talked about struggling with in my last post, and set about translating it into...
Last week at Scottish Ruby Conference I chatted with Brian Marick about software design. The week before that, he had been in Göteborg for Scandinavian Developer Conference, and had spent a morning pair programming with Geoff on TextTest. I took the chance to ask...
As I mentioned in my last post I chaired a fishbowl discussion at SDC2010 with title "Should a professional developer always use Test Driven Development?". I was delighted that the invited panelists Michael Feathers, Geoff Bache and Andrew Dalke all turned up, along...
I'm really looking forward to Scandinavian Developer Conference, and in particular the fishbowl discussion I'll be moderating on the Tuesday at 10:30am. Presenting their views will be Michael Feathers, Andrew Dalke, and Geoff Bache, and the topic under discussion is...
In my current assignment, I'm taking the role of "developer-in-test". I'm working in a large distributed development project, which is building new functionality on a large existing codebase. In practice, I work closely with the developers in the project and build...
I've just heard that two of my proposals for XP2010 have been accepted, which means I will definitely be off to Trondheim in early June. I've heard Trondheim is very beautiful, and the XP conference it usually excellent, so I'm really looking forward to it. It will...
At GothPy yesterday, Geoff talked about code coverage and tests. Geoff has spent a lot of his evenings lately working on PyUseCase, and getting the test coverage up to 100%, (statement coverage), a feat which he achieved last week. The evidence for this is available...
Hi – I´m Emily!
I am an independent consultant with Bache Consulting and chair of the Samman Technical Coaching Society. As a technical coach I work with software development organizations who want to get better at the technical practices needed to be agile, including Test-Driven Development, Refactoring and Incremental Design. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden, although I am originally from the UK. I’ve written two books: “Technical Agile Coaching with the Samman method” and “The Coding Dojo Handbook”. I teach for both O’Reilly and Pluralsight. I’m married to Geoff Bache, creator of TextTest.
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