Software craftsmanship is the movement that saved me from becoming a developer angry at managers, customers and colleagues. It gave me a direction and it helped me learn much more than I ever expected.
Software craftsmanship is a complex phenomenon, mixing social learning (communities), technical practices, the idea of continuous learning and improvement as a professional (either alone or with the help of others) and the attitude towards managers, customers and colleagues. It’s under development, and will probably continue to be for many years.
I was part of the movement very early and I have some strong opinions about it that I try to document here.
I had a lot of recurrent conversations over why we should use automatic testing, unit testing or TDD. Through these conversations, I’ve heard a lot of arguments pro and con to these techniques, so I decided to summarize them. To be honest, I am very passionate about TDD. I believe this technique is a must know for every developer who’s serious about his or her craft. Despite my...
I had the unique opportunity to spend about a week with J.B. Rainsberger (website and second website) and Corey Haines (website), in what proved my best learning experience of the last few years.
How UX techniques can be applied to software design to develop software better (given that the developer is the user of software design).
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