by Carlos Ble | May 15, 2014 | Clean code
In a previous post I wrote some examples of method names that use their arguments’ names to form an expressive expression: Users findBy(String name){…} It reads well when looking at the method definition but it may not read well when used: users =...
by Carlos Ble | May 13, 2014 | Agile
I totally disagree with the idea that ultimately we write software for money, for someone to make money — or more money. I can’t bear with sad statements like “well, eventually we get paid to produce revenue” or “at the end of the day...
by Carlos Ble | May 8, 2014 | Test Driven Development
I’ve been watching and studying K. Beck’s video series on TDD this week. These screencasts are really good in my opinion, I am glad that Kent made them. I would like to see more of them. According to Amazon, I bought Kent’s book on TDD in January...
by Carlos Ble | May 6, 2014 | Test Driven Development
Today, Peter Kofler and I have been pairing over the Internet to do deliberate practice. To improve our coding skills. We have been working on the word wrap kata, to practise the Transformation Priority Premise, this time using JavaScript. We’ve checked-in the...
by Carlos Ble | Mar 27, 2014 | Agile, Retrospectivas, Test Driven Development
Last week was awesome, I went to Barcelona to run two training courses. Well, one of them was my yearly session at the Postgraduate on Agile Methods at La Salle (Universitat Ramon Llull). The first postgraduate in the world on Agile Methods. I explain eXtreme...
by Carlos Ble | Feb 24, 2014 | JavaScript, Software Development, Test Driven Development
Last week I was the teacher in the second edition of the IronHack, well for the last two days of the week. This time I’ve joined the group on their second week rather than the fifth. So I’ve been the one introducing unit tests. It’s been quite...
by Carlos Ble | Jan 27, 2014 | Agile, Clean code, Software Development
With good names for packages, classes, methods, variables,… code should be self-explanatory. Long method names are not a problem if they really make code read better and don’t reveal too much implementation details. Names are more powerful than most...
by Carlos Ble | Jan 10, 2014 | Free/Libre Software
I am using LeanPub to create some manuals and it’s a very nice service. You just have to use Markdown to write your document and it generates a good looking pdf document from it. Well, as far as I’ve read today it’s actually kramdown a superset...
by Carlos Ble | Nov 28, 2013 | Retrospectivas, Software Development
I am one of the lecturers/mentors of the first IronHack edition, a training program for people who want to become professional developers. My part takes only three days and it’s been this week. Three full-day hands-on sessions on JavaScript, TDD and...
by Carlos Ble | Nov 24, 2013 | JavaScript, Test Driven Development, Testing
Many frameworks use the word “mock” for what in reality are “spies”. But that’s OK, the work “mock” in English covers actually all the possible test double types… However according to G. Meszaros, a mock object is a...
