by Emily Bache | May 6, 2009 | Coding Skills, Conference information
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...
by Emily Bache | Apr 21, 2009 | Experience Report
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...
by Emily Bache | Feb 25, 2009 | Coding Skills
I am really interested to find out more about this concept of “clean code”, and in particular how it relates to programming language. To this end, I’m still chewing on KataArgs.My latest idea is to start from Bob Martin’s Java implementation,...
by Emily Bache | Feb 25, 2009 | Coding Skills
I’m having fun with this KataArgs. In my last post, I took a closer look at Bob Martin’s Java and Ruby solutions to it. Since then, we have tackled this Kata at a couple of GothPy meetings. (My coding dojo; the code is here.)Several of us did some more...
by Emily Bache | Jan 21, 2009 | Coding Skills
Over Christmas I finished reading the book “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin. I thoroughly recommend the book, which is highly practical, technical and well written. In it, Bob seeks to present the “Object Mentor school of clean code”, as he...