Agile programming
Easyb is a new and very hip behavior driven development framework for Java. This talk will go through the basic principles of Behavior Driven Development, and look at how it builds on and differs from “traditional” Test-Driven Development. It then moves on to look at easyb, a very cool DSL-based …
In this talk, Yehuda Katz goes deeper, explaining some of the details of the work. He explains how Rails is becoming ORM agnostic, with code samples of work done so far. He shows some of the more significant performance enhancements, and explains why they increased the performance of the framework. …
Pairing can be a highly effective practice that adds significant value to a project, or it can be a disaster whose cost far exceeds managers’ fears that they are just paying two people to do the work of one. In the worst case, you won’t get the work of one …
This is a screen cast, of Micah writing code to implement Langston’s Ant, BDD style. He uses the shiny new RubyMine IDE for development, and Limelight to run the simulation. In martial arts, the techniques performed in kata are not always by the book. There is an aspect of art, …
Ward Cunningham reflects on the history, motivation and common misunderstanding of the “debt metaphor” as motivation for refactoring. [youtube pqeJFYwnkjE]
In this fifth and final episode, Stephen Walther and Charlie Poole successfully view blog entries in a page and all of their tests are green. This episode ends with Charlie Poole’s thoughts on the process that they followed and ASP.NET MVC. http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc-videos/video-409.aspx
