NexTip: Test with JUnit expressing your intentions!
The other day I had a nice conversation about naming of classes and methods which reminded me about one of the techniques I recently showed to a friend of mine. He was having trouble with the unit tests he was writing (in Java) as he was concerned with the readability of them. He knew that [...]
Software Craftsmanship at XtC
Last Tuesday I decided that it was time for talking about Software Craftsmanship at London’s XtC. I thought that it would be great if those of us aspiring craftsmen should start sharing our thoughts with people here in good old Europe. Talking to Ade (after he confirmed in the Wiki that he’d come to the [...]
Me meme
I was preparing a code kata for today’s coding dojo when, while procrastinating, I read a post in Dave Hoover’s blog that made me laugh… So I decided to be a meme myself… Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. (should be super-easy with [...]
Sunday at the Workshop
This Sunday I was honored to welcome an apprentice to our Workshop. A couple of days ago I approached Marek as I knew that he is a very good photographer. I wanted him to snap a couple of pictures of the workshop so that we can tell our story in pictures (instead of just talking [...]
Software Craftsmanship Manifesto Signed
The 6th of March 2009, was a great day! Finally we, the software craftsmanship community, finalized the Software Craftsmanship Manifesto, a document that summarizes the main values of the Software Craftsmanship movement. The Manifesto evolved over long months in which we had many discussions that helped us to distill and refine the ideas behind this [...]
The Workshop, how it came to live
It has been some time that I wanted to start blogging about the workshop we have started at NexWerk and what it means to me, how we are doing, what this experiment is all about. I always found an excuse to procrastinate and postpone writing about it for a better moment. There have been many [...]
Eden Craftsmen blogs- Rails alphabetical pagination
- David Good in the Wandering Book
- What’s a pomodoro?
- Reactive Data Integrity
- Using Cucumber to test concurrency issues
- My Polyphasic Sleep Experiment
- Card Of The Day: Actually Do Retrospective Actions
- Agile UX and Design – What’s in it for me?
- Learn to Type – Day 4
- Sixth Day at Eden
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