Category: ruby

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]

We keep re-reading about the FTP object, and re-learning how it works. Then a week later, we've forgotten.

Last time we zeroed in on the FTP capability of our new cut at my 'iPad' project. Today, I'm hoping we'll TDD an FTP object.

Against all my best judgment, we decide to 'start over' on this tiny product.

We've not done work on this for ages. Tozier and I try to figure out what's up.

Just a bit of reflection after two weeks off. Next week, I hope we'll actually do something. Today I remember the Boy Scout Refactoring Rule.

It has been a week since Tozier and I last worked, and I spent most of the time under repair. I'm thinking we'll work on the date-sensitive stuff. I'm mostly wrong.

Chet has me nearly convinced to move my site base to Dropbox. Today we'll talk further about that and about moving the product forward.

I decide to spike a bit on folder and file manipulation.

When this article appears, it will have been processed by our new (MVP) iPad Transfer Mechanism. 'Thank you for pressing the self-destruct button.'

Tozier and I learned something about habitable code yesterday. Topics may include bits of Confirmation Bias and fragments of Coding Morality.

I thought today we'd work on the triggering mechanism for the iPad build. Instead something important happened! (Clickbait)

If I were a REAL product owner, I'd be pressuring the hell out of my team right now. So I will. How did that work out, Ron?

We'll try to focus on building features today, but there are lurking issues in those magical incantations we do about Dir and FTP classes.

Thoughts about Technical Debt

Time to do some work after the heavy refactorings involving quantum mechanics. Let's see if we remember how.

In this short session, we inch forward and wind up in a better place. Not THAT better place. I just mean the code is better.

What's next for the iPad project? Refactoring, it turns out.

We knew last Thursday that we had an issue with folders and folder names. A week later, we dig back in.

We really hope to get from end to end today. You won't believe what happens next. Unless you're paying attention.

Tozier and I shoot again for end to end on the iPad project. What happens next? As I write these words, I don't know either.

We're clearly closer than we were, and it feels very close. But not as close as we thought.

Bill and I decided to do a bit more on the iPad publication project. You won't believe what happened next. Unless you expect trouble.

Today Tozier and I will do a Quick Design Session and start TDDing something that will, I hope, turn into the actual app.

In which we suddenly realize something about Tozier.

Tozier and I start with some Ruby code for FTP or something.

Tozier and I try some things.

I'm told the iPad is the new Mac, or something. Anyway, it'd be nice to be able to write articles on the iPad and get them on my web site without lugging around my Macbook.

Deciding what kind of tests, and what tools, would be good for a payroll series, if I continue with it.

I love computers! Trying to set up Fitnesse and landing squarely on rspec.

Every minute we spend just thinking and talking, and not programming, is wasted!