by Emily Bache | Jun 2, 2015 | Code Kata
I’ve been interested for a while in the relationship between TDD and good design for a while, and the SOLID principles of Object Oriented Design in particular. I’ve got this set of 4 “Racing Car” exercises that I originally got from Luca...
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 | Apr 30, 2010 | Coding Skills
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...
by Emily Bache | Apr 6, 2010 | Coding Skills
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...