Interesting Podcast: "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns with Kent Beck"

I've just listened this great Ruby Rogues podcast with Kent Beck talking about Beck's wonderful book Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns:

• Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns with Kent Beck

Interesting Podcast: "Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer with Brian Marick"

I've just listened this great Ruby Rogues podcast with Brian Marick talking about Marick's book Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer:

• Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer with Brian Marick

Interesting Talk: "Making Badass Developers"

I've just watched this great talk by Kathy Sierra:

• Making Badass Developers

Interesting Interview: "Passionate voices with Katrina Owen"

I've just watched this great interview to Katrina Owen:

• Passionate voices with Katrina Owen

Interesting Talk: "Migrating to Clojure, So much fn"

Several days ago I watched this really interesting talk by Jan Stępień:

• Migrating to Clojure, So much fn

Interesting Talk: "Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells"

I've just watched this very interesting talk by Elijah Manor:

• Eliminate JavaScript Code Smells

This is the short version of the talk, in which he talks about half the code smells that appear in the long version.

It seems that the long version of the talk hasn't been recorded yet (or so it says here).

In any case, these are the slides of the long version talk,

Interesting Talk: "Stop being Perfect"

I've just watched this great talk by Angus Croll about not letting best practices do your thinking for you:

• Stop being Perfect

Interesting Paper: "Mock Roles, not Objects"

I've just read this very interesting paper by Steve Freeman, Nat Pryce, Tim Mackinnon and Joe Walnes about mock objects as a design technique for identifying types in a system based on the roles the objects play:

• Mock Roles, not Objects

They talk about the importance of RDD, the Law of Demeter and Tell Don't Ask in this technique and how it can lead to an OO style based in composition rather than inheritance, encouraging designs with good separation of concerns and modularity.

It also gives many heuristics to help drive your design using mock objects and fights against some typical misconceptions surrounding mock objects.

Interesting Podcast: "Hexagonal Rails with Matt Wynne and Kevin Rutherford"

I've just listened this great Ruby Rogues podcast with Matt Wynne and Kevin Rutherford:

• Hexagonal Rails with Matt Wynne and Kevin Rutherford