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Category: Software Craftsmanship

Doug Bradbury in the Wandering Book

Doug Bradbury has added this entry to The Wandering Book recently: I love the point he makes about software development being physical; The learning must get into your bones and muscles for it to be of use to you One thing that most forget is, as Doug reiterates in his entry, that you need to [...]

Danger: Software Craftsmen at Work

In the upcoming Qcon Conference in London David Harvey is giving a talk on Software Craftsmanship with the title, you guessed right, Danger: Software Craftsmen at Work. The abstract of his talk reads as follows: Many – maybe all – of the ideas and practices being paraded under the banner of “Software Craftsmanship” are far [...]

Micah Martin in the Wandering Book

This morning I woke up with a mail from Micah telling me that he had uploaded the pages he wrote in The Wandering Book. I checked the site and I was totally amazed by what I saw. As you can see yourself he used a wonderful font for writing his entry, but above all he [...]

My new Apprentices

Yesterday finally both of my new apprentices have accepted the role as an Apprentice at Eden Development. I am very excited to be able to guide them on their long road to mastery. During the course of their apprenticeship I will be posting my thoughts on their progress, the tasks I have assigned to them [...]

Eden Development

As some of you might know already my journey has taken me now to Eden Development a software craftsmanship workshop in the heart of Winchester. Eden Development is lead by Chris Parsons, a very passionate craftsman whom I really appreciate, not only as a craftsman but as a friend as well. This does not mean [...]

Michael Norton (doc) on the wandering book

Michael Norton (doc) has written a very inspiring and at the same time humbling blog post about his experience with the wandering book. It is nice to see how the wandering book evolves with the insights and teachings of fellow craftsmen who take time to reflect and write into it, sharing their insights with everyone [...]

Dave Hoover in the wandering book

A new entry in the wandering book has been sighted, this time from Dave Hoover! I particularly liked his post because he takes Jason Gorman’s and Corey Haines’s entries creating a conversation out of them putting his own ideas into it. This entry actually made me think about our craft and how it is been [...]

SCNA

On Wednesday the 26th of August there is going to be again a conference on Software Craftsmanship, this time in Chicago. When I first heard about the conference (Paul Pagel and Dave Hoover told me about it) I was very excited and registered immediately (in fact I was the first person to test if the [...]

Sightings in London

The Wandering book has been sighted in London, in the hands of Jason Gorman! It is now, as Jason says, on it’s way to the hands of Dave Hoover… I love to see the book jumping back and forth from craftsman to craftsman I’ll keep you updated!

The Books first travels

So the wandering book has been out there for a while in the US with Corey and is on it’s way to the next craftsman. Here is Corey’s entry for those who don’t want to check the wandering book Ta!

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