Cory Foy

A quick protip – if you are projecting (say for a conference or training), want to have your screen split (so it’s showing different things on each screen) but still want to show what you are typing in your terminal, you can use tmux to have it mirror what you are typing in a separate…

Huge thanks to Red Hat for having me out for Red Hat Agile Day 2015! Below are the slides from the talk! Update: The talk was recorded! The video is posted below under the slides! Stratgic Play – Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time from Cory Foy Strategic Play from Cory Foy on…

Last night, a scary looking message came to me from our Slack channel: We were referring to the user as “Devil Man” because this was his profile picture. After wondering if perhaps my ssh keys had been compromised, I came across something that makes way more sense, and isn’t sinster at all. I ran the…

This week I had the privilege of sitting in for the great Jared Richardson and giving his Continuous Testing workshop at SQE’s Better Software West. I added my own flavor to various parts, and wanted to post the slides for participants. If you are interested in finding ways to improve your practices, be sure to…

Thanks to everyone who came out to my TriAgile talk on Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban! You can also see a video of it from my presentation at the SQE Conference from November.

Last night I spoke at the Triangle.rb meetup on focused practice and code katas. Thanks to everyone who came out! Below are my slides, and a screen recording of the code kata I performed (known as Coin Changer).

I’ve always enjoyed Test-Driven Development. I find that it helps keep me focused on thinking about small steps and object interactions. But TDD has always been a challenge in UI heavy applications, and even more so in the mobile world where much of what we do is user interface interactions. But over the past couple…

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been upgrading a particularly large and older Rails 3 app to Rails 4. This app uses Oracle against a legacy database, meaning a large chunk of the data structure does not follow Rails conventions. One of the examples is that the primary key we use on the tables…

Last week I presented at the 2014 SQE Orlando conference on a talk called “Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban”. I recorded the talk on my laptop, and though it’s not the best quality in the world, I did put it up online below. The slides are also available Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban from Cory…

On November 13th, I gave a talk at the SQE Orlando conference on “Choosing Between Scrum and Kanban”. I’ve published the slides on Slideshare, or you can view them below! If you’re interested in learning how you can do this in your organization, give me a shout at foyc at coryfoy dot com!