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- Posted 13 Jun 2015
Big Data Skills Spectrum
Big Data has been a hype for many years. I’ve seen a few “Big Data” projects start in the past with a lot of fanfare and promise.The promise has always been that “we will start getting a holistic picture of our departmental silos and gain...
- By Toby Retallick
- Posted 13 Jun 2015
A really good way to make your learning more effective
Last weekend I was lucky enough to attend Socrates UK 2015, an annual international software craftsmanship gathering set in the scenic surroundings of Farnham, Oxfordshire. If you have not done so, I definitely recommend checkout out this conference, either in England or the other Socrates...
- By Samir Talwar
- Posted 07 Jun 2015
Conversations About Conversations at SoCraTes UK 2015
OK, brain dump time. Using the Right Language What do we prioritise? What do we sacrifice? Every single product ever released has had trade-offs baked in, from the set of features to the implementation of the networking code. There were many independent discussions on and...
- By Samir Talwar
- Posted 04 Jun 2015
Crank Up The Volume And Forget Your Pomodoros
Together, Steve Lydford and I came up with a way to work that we don't think has been put to paper before. The Pomodoro technique is a great way to keep you focused, alone, in a pair, in a mob or in a meeting room....
- By Steve Lydford
- Posted 19 May 2015
Working with SLAs
If you spend any time designing applications which use third-party platforms and services, you will have spent time considering Service Level Agreements (SLAs). The tl;dr part of any SLA, the bit the everyone is actually interested in, is the uptime guarantee. However, this seemingly simple...
- By Pedro Santos
- Posted 18 May 2015
Applying Transformation Priority Premise to Roman Numerals Kata
"As tests get more specific code gets more generic." - Uncle Bob TDD Often one of the doubts we have when developing software driven by tests is how to evolve code in small and steady paces guided by tests (baby steps). TDD looks deceptively easy...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 12 May 2015
Does TDD really lead to good design?
Recently I tweeted that TDD can’t lead to a good design if we don’t know what good design looks like. I was also saying that we probably should teach design before TDD (or at least, at the same time). This tweet led to a discussions...
- By Sandro Mancuso
- Posted 06 May 2015
Q&A about The Software Craftsman
Our co-founder Sandro Mancuso was interviewed by Ben Linders from InfoQ. Below is the full transcript. In the book The Software Craftsman, Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride Sandro Mancuso explores how craftsmanship plays a role in agile software development. The book contains stories, examples and practical advice...
- By Felipe Fernández
- Posted 04 May 2015
Side effects and Java 8 streams
There is a lot of excitement in the Java community since Java 8 was released. Lambdas and Streams are a massive improvement and nobody wants to go back to the old days. Today, however, I want to talk about the caveats of some use of...
- By Steve Lydford
- Posted 04 May 2015
Creating a local NuGet repository for offline development
I spend several hours each week on long-distance train journeys and often use the time to code, whether on a pet project or practising a kata or two. Large parts of this journey have patchy-at-best mobile data coverage, so tools with a reliance on a...
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