This episode saw me make the first distinction between friendly and enemy pieces in determining available moves. It had also been a while since I’d worked on the series, so I was a little uncomfortable with how well I was reasoning at compile time about what was happening. The Board class and some of my…
In this post, I set out to do some real refactoring of the Board class. It bothered me enough to take a crack at it and, since this is a fun side project, there really aren’t any constraints. Were I committed to delivering some business value here, I might need to take a look at…
Another night in the hotel, another episode of ChessTDD. I’m doing my day to day work mainly in Java-land these days, so this is about the only time I write .NET code anymore. Anywho, in this episode, I’m just planning to pick some housekeeping cards and move them across, starting with one I created after…
In this episode, I managed to pry myself away at a slightly shorter length of recording time. You can seem me at the end wavering and and wanting to continue, but I know myself, and I’d have been hustling to wrap up under 25 minutes next thing I knew, so I thought I’d call it…
In this episode, I switched gears a bit to focus on the comparably easy task of moving pieces. I’d had enough of wanting to move pieces for setup, so it was time to take care of that. I also might (will at some point) revisit the test classes and perhaps consolidate to always starting with…
