Coding Is Like Cooking
A blog by Emily Bache
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Gathering ideas for my new dojo :-)Ivan Sanchez wrote about starting a coding dojo, and he rekons a Randori is best with 10 people or less. We will be more than 10 at JDojo@gbg. He suggests a prepared kata in that case. That might be possible. His favourite starting...
I'm planning to start a new dojo this autumn, called JDojo@Gbg. I was inspired by the guys at Responsive in Linköping, who I met at XP2009. They have been running a dojo for some time now, and find it is an excellent way to introduce programmers from their clients to...
I just wrote a report about europython on my company blog.
Today at europython we listened to a keynote about Bletchley Park. This was the centre of British and allied codebreaking activities during the second world war, and where the first digital, programmable computer was built, Colossus. We heard about the current...
I had a fantastic time at XP2009 in Sardinia, but I didn't find time to blog much about it until now. I just wrote a report of my TDD workshop on jsolutions.se.
I'm at XP2009 this week, the sun is shining, the sea is blue and the italians are disorganized. I'm having a great time so far. This morning I was at a workshop led by Danilo Sato and Francisco Trindade - 'The lego lean game'. The idea was that we should learn about...
I usually follow the news in the agile world on infoq, and I like the feature whereby you can listen to selected conference presentations online. This week I was making some biscuits one evening, so I took the chance to listen to Linda Rising talking about "agility:...
I'm looking forward to Europython in Birmingham at the end of June. Geoff and I are going to be rather busy at it. They've just published the programme, and between us we are holding 5 sessions. I'm running a "coder's dojo", a "clean code challenge", and Geoff and I...
As I wrote in a previous post, I am organising a workshop at XP2009 called "Test Driven Development: Performing Art". I am very pleased to announce that I have four pairs of expert programmers willing to perform prepared Katas at it! You can read about it here. I am...
Recently I've had the priviledge of working with a team of developers where I sit in the same room as half of them, and the other half are in China. My role is to help them to develop a suite of automated system tests alongside the production code. After a few month's...
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. I am also on Mastodon as emilybache@sw-development-is.social.
If you’d like to know a bit more about me, my work, and the talks and workshops I offer, please visit my main website: EmilyBache.com. There, you’ll find information about my background, upcoming events, and the services I provide as a technical coach and consultant. It’s a good place to start if you’re curious about how I can support your team in improving coding skills and agile practices.
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