An Apprentice's Community
Musings on the path of an aspiring software developer
Writing
Take Two
Lessons learned from mistakes in application design
Package Principles: Cohesion
An introduction to the first three package principles
Font-face Kits with Rails
Using font-face kits with a Rails 3.2 project
Bowling Game Kata in Clojure
An approach to the bowling game kata using Clojure
Assumptions
A narrative about mistakes and the assumptions which led to them
Estimation
Things to keep in mind when estimating project stories
Being Humble
Advice for contributing to a professional environment
Team Communication
Avoiding potential pitfalls by keeping a team informed
Do Something So You Can Change It
Helping to spur progress using the words of a famous theatre director
Foundry
A first encounter with an apprenticeship tracking application
Mapping the Path Between Problem and Solution
A process to help unscramble a problem and realize the solution
Hash Breakage
Discovering that Hashes work best with immutability
Managing Commit Size
Two git commands to aid committing individual ideas
Development Logs
Detailed accounts of activities and decisions as a personal learning tool
Testing Execution Order
Accounting for order-dependent expectations in unit tests
A Few More Things Learned About Testing
Behavior over implementation; extracted classes; and wet assertions
Expanding on the Single-Responsibility Principle
Thoughts on applying SRP to methods as well as classes
Being Wrong and Thinking Right
Thoughts on personal development and feedback
Quick and Dirty TDD
Carrying game development ideas over into test-driven development
do...while vs. braces
Visual consistency with regard to code block delimiters
== vs. eql vs. equals
Thoughts on the subtle differences between these three similar operators
Kata Presentation Feedback
Thinking about improvements for my kata and its presentation
Testing by Mocking Standard I/O
Thoughts on thorough testing using mocks and the console
Prime Factors Kata
The rough first result of my first real assignment
Vim: Hands-on Programming
It might seem like a crazy person's editor, but...
Ruby
Ruby and the challenge of deprecation and change
Apprenticeship, Day 1
Some thoughts on my first day in the Apprenticeship