The kata we picked was TDD as if you meant it. The rules are the ones of TDD, plus some additionals. These rules - such as write the code first at the test class and don’t move it until… - are not ...

I was really happy to finally attend an IT conference, even though I was more looking for another experience. I was envisaging attending a SocRaTes event. Maybe soon I will have the opportunity. St...

I am going to work on a so called product#on. In my company’s terms it means a usually 3, or in this case a 6 months assignment where the participants work in startup mode. Okay. Maybe not in star...

It was fantastic and tiring. And finally I fulfilled a 5 year old promise of mine to my wife that I’d go to Japan with her. When I was in Spain a few months before, I could spend each day some tim...

It does not seem to easy to find a project. I’ve been checking a lot during the last few days and starred some repositories. Mostly Java and Python ones. But that doesn’t matter that much. It seem...

My IntelliJ stopped working properly. When I clicked on run tests, it only compiled the code but never ran anything. I spent some time investigating the issue, I tried to fix this erroneous state, ...

The scrum team I am part of consists of people from several teams, including developers from a handful of different components. Even though I’m coming from one of these teams, as I had not worked o...

Obviously I did not work during my week off. However if you are a passionate developer you might not want to erase coding and learning from your week. So what did I do? I planned to move on with m...

As I’m quite new on the underlying application I executed the procedure in one phase, just to see if it works fine, how the application responds. Then I talked to the author and we agreed, this sho...

If not, imagine some nasty long main function with wonderful variable names like CC, RR, j and jPrime for example. I hope you don’t like these names. Here is the starting code in Java and here in C...