by Carlos Ble | Sep 5, 2013 | Agile, Software Development
A version control system should be easy to use, at least when you just need to perform basic tasks. This is why I like Mercurial. It’s powerful yet easy. And TortoiseHG is an excellent client app. It’s got the same GUI in Linux, MacOS and Windows. This is...
by Carlos Ble | Aug 20, 2013 | Screencasts
I am recording some screencasts for a TDD training. I will tell you more about that later. For now, let me write how am I doing it for me to remember in the future. For recording I am using Kazam, adding the ppa repository to my Ubuntu (apt-get install kazam). The...
by Carlos Ble | Aug 18, 2013 | Plumbing, Uncategorized
I’ve bought a new keyboard to use it with my laptop when I travel and also for coding dojos. It’s small, cordless and with US layout which is what I use for coding. Very handy. It’s a Targus AKB33US. But it hasn’t been easy to configure on my...
by Carlos Ble | Aug 11, 2013 | JavaScript, Test Driven Development
Rich internet applications bring a powerful user experience. But in order to achieve that, they must be written totally different from traditional webs. The paradigm is totally different and so the architecture. There is no “server side” as such. In some...
by Carlos Ble | Jul 9, 2013 | JavaScript
The 2nd edition of the SpainJS conference was held in Madrid last week. On Thursday there were workshops the whole day. Talks and networking happened on Friday and Saturday. I attended to the workshops and learned a lot in the first one, about memory leaks hunting...
by Carlos Ble | Jun 29, 2013 | Agile, Retrospectivas
No puedo decir que esté contento con cómo lo he hecho en la organización de AOS2013 y no me gustaria que este post fuese punto de discusión sobre lo ocurrido en AOS. Para eso esta la lista de correo. Roberto Canales ha escrito también un extenso post sobre su...
by Carlos Ble | May 28, 2013 | Agile, Testing
Potsdam is beautiful specially in this time of the year, it’s definitely a must see, I am loving the place. However, I am not here for tourism reasons. I am attending a special training called “Train the trainers” for those professionals who want to...
by Carlos Ble | May 18, 2013 | Agile, Clean code, Retrospectivas, Software Development, Test Driven Development
I’ve got goosebumps on my arms most of the day. And it doesn’t happen very often. This is the most emotional coding dojo I’ve ever facilitated. It’s been in Gran Canaria, at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EII ULPGC). The...
by Carlos Ble | May 1, 2013 | Software Development
I connect to my desktop PC (which is very powerful) from my laptop (very old), when I feel like coding from the other room, the couch or the bed. Desktop is a Windows 7 machine, laptop is Ubuntu. I have installed TightVNC on the Windows machine and SSVNC (without any...
by Carlos Ble | Apr 7, 2013 | Agile, Clean code
A new change or feature is about to be implemented. There are several places where it can fit in, and all of them seem to respect the Single Responsibility Principle. My tendency used to be adding the new feature where it was easier to place. However now I consider...
