TechCast #39 – Jon Kern and Corey Haines on Agile, Software Craftsmanship

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A discussion with Jon Kern and Corey Haines about Agile, Pair Programming, Software Craftsmanship, and more.

Show Notes:

  1. Corey Haines – Pair Programming Tour – http://programmingtour.blogspot.com/
  2. Jon Kern’s web site, Technical Debt.  Here is a recent post on metrics (with links to Corey’s video)  to measure quality July ’09 http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_07.html
  3. Software Craftsmanship – the movement website – http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/
  4. Robert C. Martin – “Uncle Bob” – http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/category/uncle-bobs-blatherings
  5. Interesting comment from JB Rainsberger on the law of Speed -vs- Quality http://www.jbrains.ca/permalink/218
  6. On not needing defined requirements to enable good design http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/dont-need-def-for-good-design
  7. Technical Debt – what is it?  http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?TechnicalDebt
  8. Kent Beck’s “To Test or not to Test” blog entry (do read the comments) – http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=187
  9. The Liskov Substitution Principle http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?LiskovSubstitutionPrinciple and the five principles of class design (SOLID), cohesion and coupling http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?LiskovSubstitutionPrinciple
  10. Jamis Buck – Recovering from the Enterprise – RubyConf ’08 presentation http://averyblog.com/ruby-rails/rubyconf-08-jamis-buck-recovering-from-the-enterprise/ – hey, you don’t need a DI framework in Ruby, man!
  11. Software Engineering – an oxymoron in your organization – http://technicaldebt.com/archives/2009_04.html#000867
  12. Cucumber http://cukes.info/ RSpec http://rspec.info/ and BDD http://behaviour-driven.org/
  13. Podcast with Arlo Belshee on Promiscuous Programming http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=400364