These days, I make part of my living doing what’s called “software craftsmanship coaching.” Loosely described, this means that I spend time with teams, helping them develop and sustain ways to write cleaner code. It involves introduction to things like the SOLID Principles, design patterns, DRY code, pair programming, and, of course, automated testing and test…
In case you were wondering who is responsible for the bounty provided by harvests each year, the answer is the goddess Demeter. In the age of global transport, harvests have stabilized somewhat, but that wasn’t always the case. There was a time when Hades, the God of the Underworld, captured Demeter’s daughter, Persephone, and held…
This episode went smoothly until I discovered a bug. Philosophically, I suppose this is the natural state of software development. For my purposes here, though, hunting down the bug caused the episode to balloon to 26 minutes, so I’m going to try a new thing so as to keep the videos a reasonable length of…
“Remember, kids, your projects are due a week from Monday, so you’d better get started if you haven’t already.” This imminently relatable phrase, or one like it, is probably the first exposure to nagging that most of us had outside of the home. Oh sure, Mom and Dad had nagged us for years to clean…
Things are really starting to flow with the acceptance tests now. In this episode, not only did I mercifully not uncover any important bugs, but I defined knight movement in acceptance tests in a way that I feel pretty good about. I’m learning as I go about using SpecFlow, which is cool, and as the…
