by Emily Bache | Dec 20, 2011 | Coding Skills, Experience Report
A little while back I was back in Stockholm facilitating another Code Retreat, (see previous post), this time as part of Global Day of Code Retreat, (GDCR). (Take a look at Corey Haines’ site for loads of information about this global event that comprised...
by Emily Bache | Nov 9, 2011 | Coding Skills
Programmers have a vested interest in making sure the software they create does what they think it does. When I’m coding I prefer to work in the context of feedback from automated tests, that help me to keep track of what works and how far I’ve got....
by Emily Bache | Oct 14, 2011 | Review
I’m speaking next week at ScanDev on Tour in Stockholm on the subject of “Software Development Craftsmanship”, and as part of my research I read both “The Clean Coder” by Robert C. Martin and “Apprenticeship Patterns” by Dave...
by Emily Bache | Sep 21, 2011 | Coding Skills, Experience Report
This weekend I was in Stockholm to facilitate a Code Retreat, organized by Peter Lind and sponsored by Valtech. We were about 40 coders gathered in the warm autumn sunshine early on a Saturday morning at Valtech’s offices. (Do take a look at Peter’s blog...
by Emily Bache | Aug 25, 2011 | Code Kata
I’ve been working on a kata called “Tennis”*, which I find interesting, because it is quite quick to code, yet is a big enough problem to be worth doing. It’s also possible to enumerate pretty much all the allowed scores, and get very...
