by Emily Bache | Jan 17, 2011 | Conference information, Experience Report
I travelled to Oslo last weekend, to take part in Agile Coach Camp Norway. This was an open space conference organized by some enthusiasts, not for profit. I became interested in going to the conference when I heard some other agile coaches tweeting about it. I’ve...
by Emily Bache | Dec 16, 2010 | Opinion
The world need more and better programmers. Jason Gorman recently wrote this post encouraging people to start offering software apprenticeships, as an alternative to computer science degrees. He writes: “our computing education in [the UK] is preparing students...
by Emily Bache | Dec 3, 2010 | Experience Report, Opinion
Last night at GothPy we had a play with Django, a web application framework for Python. I’m fairly familiar with Rails, so it was interesting to see a different take on solving the same kinds of problems. I downloaded Django for the first time when preparing for...
by Emily Bache | Nov 1, 2010 | Code Kata
I was at the local Ruby User Group last night, and I coded up KataMontyHall (see below) as a prepared Kata in front of the group. I got some great comments and feedback while I was coding, and I think the solution I ended up with was better than any I had created by...
by Emily Bache | Oct 7, 2010 | Conference information, Experience Report
On the wednesday of Agile Testing Days it was my turn to speak, and together with Fredrik Wendt we presented “The Coding Dojo as a forum for teaching Test Driven Development”. The talk was mostly aimed at developers, and the basic idea is to encourage them...
