I’ve been doing retrospection and navel-gazing lately, after deciding to join a new adventure and leaving an awesome job. I had the chance to work in XIV-IBM for just over a year, and it being my first real job I was thinking of how satisfied I am with my work there. As I’ve mentioned in [...]
02
Jun
2010
Case Study: Refactoring Interfaces with TDDed Tests
I’ve been practicing TDD for a couple of years now, and keep learning all the time. In the past year I’ve been mainly working on a single project, the longest I’ve worked on a project with TDD. Putting aside how fun it is (TDD saved me quite a few times for me to be sure [...]
09
May
2010
Case Study: Single Responsibility Principle Violation
Having recently finished the amazing PPP book (more here) my code-sense is getting better in putting the finger on the smells in code that make it painful for me to use. This is the story of one of them, in Buildbot. Disclaimer: Buildbot is a pretty awesome building/continuous integration system that I use and contribute [...]
