Category: gilded-rose

It seems to your faithful author that we've done nearly all we can with the Gilded Rose. We'll take a final look. Or maybe not final. Who knows?

I want to try another approach to the product-type lookup. I have to try it to see if I like it.

We'd like a better way of getting from an items name to its type. We'd like it to be bullet-proof, but not difficult to manage.

I was glancing at yesterday's article last night, and noticed some truly odd code that IDEA generated for me. We'll start there, and I have some improvements in mind.

We are supposed to implement a new feature in the Gilded Rose program. Let's do that ... and let's take a look at where we are ... and where we might go. (Final: We go somewhere rather nice!)

The point of a kata is that we do it again and again, practicing to get better. This isn't really a kata, but it's somewhat like one. (Outcome: Two points to GeePaw.) (UPDATE: Not a bug! Woot!)

I do some microtests. Didn't even take an hour, including writing.

Let's see if we can wring a bit more out of refactoring the Gilded Rose. (Some wiggling back and forth to slightly better code.)

Continuing the long refactoring from the previous article.

One course seems obviously better. I shall choose the other.

Articles 76 and 77 are a long, tiny-step refactoring. Here, we'll preview where we started and where we wind up.

Yesterday the FGNO / Zoom Ensemble played with the Gilded Rose. This morning we'll look at it here.

The Gilded Rose 'kata' exists in many languages, but I've not seen Codea Lua. Maybe I should fix that bug. This is pretty boring. Skim, don't read. Needed for the record.

Some final thoughts on the Gilded Rose exercise. Well, final for now ...

To round out a dozen, we simplify things a lot. Too much? What do you think?

Experiment with lambda.

Today I think I'll double-check that double-decrement issue. Then I want to see if we can combine those two parallel if nests.

Some really nice progress today ... and one open question.

Dave Nicolette mentioned on Twitter that he was wondering whether a Mob Programming Gilded Rose kata, using Arlo Belshee's 'Read by Refactoring' would make a good video. That gave me an idea.

We're on a path more like re-implementing the program than refactoring it. That's a concern. Can we do better?

Today I plan to move the Conjured item code to the new scheme, and see what that tells me. Something will probably go wrong.

It's noon on Tuesday. I've whiled away the morning. Let's try to make a bit more progress on this code.

Monday, Monday ...

Are we doing it right? Are we in trouble already?

It's April 17th. It's snowing. We're on lockdown. Let's look at Gilded Rose and see what we might do that would be interesting.

Chet, Amitai Schleier, and I played with the Gilded Rose exercise the other day. I think I'll write about it a bit, starting from scratch. [edited]