Beautiful code - review

A few days ago I have finished reading 'Beautiful Code'. It is a book that gathers 34 articles written by well-known software designers and edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson. The intention of Oram's and Wilson's was to create a book where IT stars will show how they attack some specific problem and provide elegant and clear solutions. So idea for this book was really noble. What about realization ?

In The Brain of Uncle Bob

I think I don't need to introduce you Robert Martin. Maybe not everybody loves him but for sure everybody knows him. He is a symbol of TDD and person with over 40 years experience in software development. Whats more he is also a great speaker and lately he gave a really interesting talk.

Venkat Subramaniam to the rescue

I have met Venkat Subramaniam for the first time on 33rd Degree conference. After his first presentation (by the way - it had fancy title "Pointy haired bosses and pragmatic programmers: Facts and Fallacies of Software Development") I was like "This guy has enormous knowledge and knows how to share it ! I must see his other presentations !". So I went to his two other presentations and guess what ? They were awesome as well !

Blocks in Ruby

One of the first things that a new Ruby programmer finds interesting in this language are blocks. On first sight they look a little bit weird. However after a first few uses they become as natural as breathing. Ruby blocks are very simple and in the same time very powerful mechanism. That's why I made up my mind to write a short article about them.

Code sandwich

Ruby koans is a great way to learn basics of Ruby. For me it was also a chance to meet for the first time a 'Code Sandwich' term. This is not a very popular term but I want to write about it. In my humble opinion it is a very common problem and a name 'code sandwich' fits just accurately. I'm going to show how we can solve it in Java and Ruby.