Development

One of the most debated and debatable XP practices is Pair Programming. Here is what I found to work best for me: willing spontaneous pairing (to carry on Arlo Belshee’s wonderfully ambiguous ‘Promiscuous Pairing’).

In the it-agile Startup March we tried to make decisions based solely on hard facts. No more guessing or subjective opinions, just objective numbers. This appealed a lot to the mathematician in me. I, and most other participants had just read Eric Ries’…

The residents of Java are waiting. Waiting for the day when another city will rise to supremacy in JVMland. These days they are looking north towards the functional territories and watch with interest as the new cities Kotlin…

I attended a Code Retreat yesterday in Hamburg. As usual we used Conway’s Game of Life to practice our coding skills. I planned to do at least one session using Scala, but my Scala IDE wasn’t working any more, probably due to an incompatible upgrade of some description.

After the recent divorce of Hudson and Jenkins following the tragical death of Hudson’s mother Sun and a long battle over trademark rights, Hudson seems to have come to senses and is planning to hand over the code to Eclipse.

Here is the end result of my implementation of the Bowling Game Kata in Scala. You can see all steps including the tests on CodersDojo.org.

[sourcecode language=”scala” wraplines=”false”]
class BowlingGame {