Global Day of Coderetreat December 3rd

Post by Jose_GD » Sat, Nov 05, 2011, 4:42 AM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #18

feral wrote: post #13

http://coderetreat.ning.com/profiles/blogs/how-a-coderetreat... gives an introduction to the format. I hope to attend the next one, in Dublin, Ireland. I'm a little skeptical about the format though. You develop in 45 minute long cycles, and must delete your code at the end of the 45 minutes. However, you are supposed to use test driven development. I'm a little skeptical of TDD in general - I see advantages to the p…

TDDing your way and deleting afterwards is common kata practice. You can see Uncle bob doing this on this video[1]. Uncle Bob[2] is, among many other things, the creator of fitnesse[3]. Interesting enough, he is a bit critical of the Software Craftmanship movement[4,5], which is sponsoring this code retreat. [1] http://vimeo.com/7762511 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Bob [3] https://github.com/unclebob/fitnes…

Post by Jose_GD » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 3:41 AM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #22

Jose_GD wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Daniel, why are you saying Uncle Bob is a bit critical of the SC movement? In links 4 and 5 he express quite the contrary, he's defending firmly his belief in craftsmanship.

At the end of the first video(here[1]) he says: There is a danger here of a rift: what we don't want is separate movements... What we want is a reunification. What we really want is a return to the values that started this whole thing Which is a criticism. Granted, it is a harder critic on the Agile movement than on the Software Craftsmanship (it essentially means that Agile forgot the Software Craftsmanship along th…