- We Need Realistic Coding Dojos I'm not sure about your experience with coding dojos, but this is what happens to me every time I attend a series of coding dojos or organize one.
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- A Step by Step BDD Demonstration with Some Useful Insights According to Stephen Covey, the seventh habit of highly effective people is sharpening the saw. If you have ever been to an agile workshop or conference, you may have already heard this expression. Software craftsmen sharpen their saw at coding dojos where they talk to each other a talk about new things or do Kata exercises together.
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- Building a Bridge a.k.a Parallel Changes Several days ago, we had a coding dojo at Digital Natives.
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- Weekly - CW18 I'm still a bit busy, but nevertheless here is the collection for calendar week 18, 2011.
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- The Currency Format Kata A couple of days ago, I needed a function which is capable of printing out a certain amount in Hungarian currency format. At that time I found the implementation of this function challenging, so I decided to implement it on my own, without googling for an existing solution.
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- The Refactoring only Constraint Doing code kata is more fun with constraints. Once I heard about a very impressive one, but I was unable to find anything about it, so I decided to investigate and write about it on my own. The constraint is simple.
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- Testing the Stack Implementation I've created my own version of the exercise used during my first agile job interview in order to compare it to the result of the pair programming session of the job interview. The exercise was quite simple.
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- File Lottery Kata When I do some coding, I use test driven approach, have lots of fake and mock objects, and I use dependency injection for putting everything together. I usually don't work alone, and from time to time I have to introduce these methods to someone with less experience in this particular area.
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- Using Kata for Improvements I used to keep coding dojos for my colleagues, and it was sometimes very hard to find the right topic. I recently rediscovered the code kata - I did it earlier, but stopped after a short period -, and got an idea. I'm going to use it for discovering areas where our teams can improve.
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