by Emily Bache | Mar 19, 2013 | Coding Skills, Conference information
I’ve been working on this Kata “Gilded Rose” at a few different coding dojos lately. There is even a video of a session I did at the “Tampere Goes Agile” conference recently. In the video, you can see me talking about my Principles of...
by Emily Bache | Mar 15, 2013 | Coding Skills
I’ve previously written about Agile test automation principles, and since then I’ve had some interesting discussions with people that have led me to revise them in this article. In particular, Seb Rose wrote about his 6 principles of unit testing and...
by Emily Bache | Jan 10, 2013 | How-to
The Cyber-Dojo tool was designed by Jon Jagger as en environment where you can practice your coding skills. I’ve used it a few times now with groups at coding dojos and code retreats, and I think it’s a pretty useful tool for those contexts. (See also my...
by Emily Bache | Dec 10, 2012 | Experience Report
On Saturday I was up in Stockholm facilitating my fourth code retreat for Valtech, and my second Global Day of Code Retreat. It seemed to go very well. I tried out a few new elements, which seemed to make it go even better than the previous ones, so I thought...
by Emily Bache | Nov 15, 2012 | Code Kata, Coding Skills
This Code Kata is included in my new book “The Coding Dojo Handbook”, currently published as a work-in-progress on LeanPub.com. You can also download starting code and these instructions from my github page. As a Health Insurer, I want to be able to search...