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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Interesting Talk: "Technical Debt, Process and Culture"

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

• Technical Debt, Process and Culture 

in which he continues developing the ideas about software growth and evolution that he presented in other talk I mentioned in a previous post: "Software Naturalism - Embracing the Real Behind the Ideal".