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…
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…
This episode featured a return to progress toward shippable features. I refactored the first feature that I’d started to use the new, idiomatic Specflow approach. This resulted in it making the most sense to have this be the feature for pawn movement and thus progress toward implementing the pawn’s movement as well as shaking out…
Having fixed some bugs in the last few episodes, it would have been nice to make some progress with functionality, but there was housekeeping to be done first. I did some refactoring for board setup using the tables, compacting methods, and made the implementation of the moves checker correct. This will put me on much…
