by Emily Bache | Nov 4, 2013 | Experience Report
I was recently at the Software Craftsmanship Conference at Bletchley Park in the UK. This is a one-day conference for software developers, attended by around 150 programmers. All proceeds from the event go to support Bletchley Park, which is of historical interest to...
by Emily Bache | Sep 4, 2012 | Coding Skills
Do you automatically get better design with TDD? Does an otherwise average software developer produce superior designs if they write the tests first rather than afterwards? Does it make a difference what style of TDD you use?incident #1I was at a session at XP2012...
by Emily Bache | Aug 16, 2012 | Review
For a little while now I’ve been collecting Refactoring Kata exercises in a github repo, (you’re welcome to clone it and try them out). I’ve recently facilitated working on some of these katas at various coding dojo meetings, and participants seem to...
by Emily Bache | Dec 20, 2011 | Conference information, Experience Report
Scandinavian Developer Conference will be held in Göteborg in April, and last week we launched the detailed programme on the website. I’ve been involved with the conference ever since the first event in 2009, but this year I’ve taken on increased...
by Emily Bache | Oct 14, 2011 | Review
I’m speaking next week at ScanDev on Tour in Stockholm on the subject of “Software Development Craftsmanship”, and as part of my research I read both “The Clean Coder” by Robert C. Martin and “Apprenticeship Patterns” by Dave...
