Interesting Talk: "Better is Better"

I found this Steve Freeman's talk very interesting:

• Better is better

Interesting Talk: "So you think you need a rewrite?"

I've just watched this great talk about what I'm currently working on: a rewrite.

• So you think you need a rewrite? by Chad Fowler and Rich Kilmer.

It contains a lot of pearls of wisdom.
They also recommended the book Working effectively with legacy code by Michael Feathers.
Coincidentally, I'm reading this book at the moment and I'm loving it. I think it's interesting to read it even if you're not working with legacy code because it makes you think a lot about dependencies, design and tests.

Watched at work: "Panel on C++11"

Today we watched another talk about C++11:

• Panel on C++11 with Andrei Alexandrescu, Scott Meyers and Herb Sutter

This talk was part of the C++ and beyond 2011.
The content of the talk was really deep and advanced (at least for my current C++ level). Still, I found some parts of it very interesting and useful. The speakers are top guys in C++.

Two nice TDD videos in Spanish

I found two nice TDD videos published by Sebastián Hermida as part of his project HolaTDD:

• Top-down testing
• El buscaminas

I really like the way he starts doing top-down testing using interfaces.

Watched at work: "Designing Software with SOLID principles "

We watched another video about SOLID principles:

• Designing Software with SOLID principles by Daniel González.

The example that he showed in his presentation comes from this article in Code Magazine:

• S.O.L.I.D. Software Development, One Step at a Time by Derick Bailey.

In my opinion the article does a better job at explaining the SOLID example.

Interesting Talk: "What Business Can Learn From Software Development"

Nice talk by Michael Norton in TEDxLakeshoreEast:
What Business Can Learn From Software Development

Interesting talk: "Is it possible to do OOP in Java?"

I've just watched this interesting talk:

• Is it possible to do OOP in Java? by Kevlin Henney.

It arose my curiosity. Now I have a couple of papers to read:

• On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited by William R. Cook
• The Paradigms of Programming by Robert W. Floyd

Watched at work: "SOLID principle short videos" and "Writing modern C++ code"

We watched the two Jason Gorman's videos about S.O.L.I.D. principles that we didn't have time to watch last week:

• Interface Segregation.
• Dependency Inversion.

I've been following Jason Gorman's blog, Software People Inspiring, for a while now. I find it very interesting and it has a lot of great resources for apprentices like me.

We also watched half of Herb Sutter's talk about C++11:

• Writing modern C++ code: how C++ has evolved over the years

C++ has turned much cleaner and safer. I'm looking forward to see the rest of it next week.