Interesting Talk: "Stop Mocking, Start Testing"

I've just watched this interesting talk by two Google engineers Augie Fackler and Nathaniel Manista:

• Stop Mocking, Start Testing

The speakers explain their experiences in testing a big project written in Python and how their testing style has evolved with time.

How to change the code templates date format in Eclipse Indigo CDT

As I commented in a previous post, last week I spent some time configuring my recently installed version of Eclipse CDT.

After importing my preferences and settings, using Tomáš Kramár's script, I realize that the date format that appeared when using the code template for class comments didn't have the right format. I was getting Oct 26, 2012 instead of 26/10/2012. I needed to change the locale date format.

After googling a bit, I found that what I had to do was just adding the following two lines to the eclipse.ini file:

-Duser.language=es 

-Duser.region=ES

Script to create a new Eclipse workspace with all your old settings

Last week I had to configure my new installation of Eclipse.
I'd like to thank Tomáš Kramár for his script to create a new Eclipse workspace with all my old settings:

• Create new eclipse workspace -- with all your old settings

It saved me a lot of time.

Interesting Talk: "Don't call us, we'll call you: callback patterns and idioms"

I've just watched this interesting talk by Alex Martelli:

• Don't call us, we'll call you: callback patterns and idioms

Youl find the talk slides here.

Katayuno: "Kata Tennis"

Yesterday I went to a katayuno celebrated in Softonic Barcelona offices.
Katayuno comes from the words "kata" and "desayuno" (breakfast in Spanish) and as you can imagine it's an event where people meet to have breakfast together and practice by programming a kata. This time it was the Kata Tennis.

We had breakfast and then made two iterations of one hour each (45' pair programming with TDD + 15' retrospective). Afterwards we had a second breakfast and made two iterations more.

It was fun. I pair-programed in Php, Java (two times) and C++ with Oscar, Alex, Juanjo and Emmet, respectively. I knew interesting people and learned new things.

Once at home, yesterday afternoon, I redid the tennis kata in C++. Here you can find what I've done so far.

I'd like to thank the Softonic team for organizing this great event.

Related posts:

• Refactoring Kata Tennis to State Pattern

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