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...
by Emily Bache | Sep 24, 2010 | Review
A little while ago, Fredrik Wendt and I put together a little survey and sent it to all the people we know who have attended coding dojo meetings here in Göteborg. There are several groups in the city which run these kinds of meetings from time to time. We wanted to...
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...
