Interesting Talk: "Hammock Driven Development"

I've just watched this great talk by Rich Hickey:

• Hammock Driven Development

Interesting Talk: "Systems and Domains. Triplet Sons of Different Mothers"

I've just watched this very interesting talk by Robert C. Martin:

• Systems and Domains. Triplet Sons of Different Mothers

Here you can find a summary of the main ideas in the talk:
Uncle Bob: Architecture is About Intent, not Frameworks
some criticism to the Clean Architecture ideas: The delivery mechanism is an annoying detail
and Robert Martin's answer to it: Clean Architecture

Interesting Talk: "Design, Composition and Performance"

I've just watched this great talk by Rich Hickey:

• Design, Composition and Performance

Books I read (January - August 2013)

January
- Matemàtica discreta. UOC. (2nd time)

February
- The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster

March
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Event-Driven Programming: Introduction, Tutorial, History, Stephen Pherg
- JavaScript Enlightenment, Cody Lindley

April
- El camino a un mejor programador, E. Manchado, J. Caraballo y Y. Darias
- The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley

May
- La Tumba (Grave Peril), Jim Butcher
- Implementation Patterns, Kent Beck
- User Stories Applied, Mike Cohn

June
- Implementation Patterns, Kent Beck (2nd time)

July
- Chapters 1-6 of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design With applications 2nd edition, Grady Booch

August
- Test-Driven Development By Example, Kent Beck (2nd time)
- Victus, Albert Sánchez Piñol
- El cuerpo humano (Il corpo umano), Paolo Giordano

Interesting Interview: "Ward Cunningham on the Appeal of OOP and Dynamic Languages, Federated Wiki"

Today I watched this interesting interview where Ward Cunningham talks about OOP, Smaltalk, JavaScript, CoffeScript and the Federated Wiki:

• Ward Cunningham on the Appeal of OOP and Dynamic Languages, Federated Wiki

Interesting Talk: "Responsive Design"

Today I watched this great talk by Kent Beck:

• Responsive Design

In it, he talks about the patterns, values and principles that drive his design decisions.

Interesting talk: "Challenging requirements"

I've just watched this great talk by Gojko Adzic, the author of the Specification by Example book that I'm currently reading:

• Challenging requirements

Thanks to Guillermo Pascual for recommending it in the Aprendices community.

Some talk highlights:

Refuse solutions to unknown problems:
understand what the real problem is and solve that.

Refuse suggestions to use a particular technology:
you know IT better than they do (if not, why have they hired you?).

Don't rush into solving the first problem they give you:
keep asking "why" (or "how would this be useful") until you get to the money.

Know your stakeholders:
who is going to use this and why?

Don't start with stories!:
Start with a very high level example of how people will use the system.

Great products come from understanding the real problem and whose problem it is.

Interesting Talk: "Testing Revisited"

I've just watched this great talk by Michael Feathers:

• Testing Revisited

Interesting Talk: "Advanced Concepts in TDD"

I've just watched this great talk by Robert C. Martin:

• Advanced Concepts in TDD

I think it's definitely a must-see.

Interesting talk: "TDD, where did it all go wrong"

I've recently watched this interesting talk by Ian Cooper:

• TDD, where did it all go wrong

He talks about ways of avoiding common problems that arise when TDD is not practised well.