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The junior talent scheme, Fundamentals of Programming, for which I am a mentor have set a summer challenge – To create something interesting with a Microbit. As a mentor and one of the judges, I too was given a kit…
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), that’s just a technique for programmers, right? Well no actually it isn’t. In fact if it’s only being done by the Development team then you’re missing a key part of it – Conversation. This is where…
Scrum has changed over time, the Scrum we see today is not how it was originally implemented for example, The first daily scrum reportedly took hours, not minutes! it was a sit-down not a stand up. The scrum masters job…
The best way to learn anything is to do it and coding is no exception and the best way to get better at something is to practice. Try it, learn by making mistakes and the apply the knowledge gained to…
Last week I successfully passed AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals. I thought I would share some thoughts on the experience. What is it? It’s Microsoft entry certification for their Azure cloud platform. It’s a non-technical test aimed at understanding the basic…
The book ‘The Pragmatic Programmer’ suggests learning a new programming language every year. This may seem excessive and there are plenty of arguments for and against this. Whilst I don’t think you need to learn one that frequently, I do…
Innovation: noun, meaning – ‘a new method, idea, product, etc.’ History loves to associate Innovation with individuals – who invented the Light bulb, the Computer or the Telephone? Google these and you will get the name of a person. The…
JUnit4 introduced @Test annotations and removes the need to prefix test method names with ‘test’. Take advantage of this and use a different test case naming convention to test the class behaviour, not it’s implementation Compare the two units test below…
50 years ago this month Humanity achieved something that many before them deemed not possible. We set foot on the surface of the moon. It was a mammoth undertaking over many years, costing millions of pounds (well $dollars) and involving…
Forget chasing code coverage, in my view it is a somewhat pointless statistic and chasing it can (in some cases) lead to poor quality tests and a lot of wasted time. It can also lead to a false sense of…