(If you’d like to see the video, click here) Earlier this year I was invited to be a speaker at SCNA 2012. At the time I was thinking a lot about quality and about the learning and growth process of developers. Back in March I helped launch the Florida arm of 8th Light, and now…
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Koans and Katas, Oh My! Slides and Links From My Øredev 2010 Session
This morning at Øredev 2010 here in Malmö, Sweden I gave a workshop entitled “Koans and Katas, Oh My!”. I covered various learning models, and we did a lot of hands on exercises showing the power of regular practice in the software profession. As one attendee said, “I fell in love with TDD again!”. I…
DotNet Koans
For quite a while now, if you want to learn Ruby, you have the Pickaxe book, Why’s guide, and the fabulous Edgecase Ruby Koans on GitHub. The Koans are especially interesting because all you really need to do is setup a working environment and go. It tells you what you need to do next, by…