Talks that inspire

TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong

Test-driven development (TDD) is simple, but we often get it wrong. It takes time to get good at TDD, and you’ll make mistakes. Ian Cooper has identified these mistakes and gives us some guidance.

Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers

Some of your habbits may be more harmful than useful. Kevlin Henney as the excelnt talker he is delightfullly explains why that is so.

The Early Days of id Software: Programming Principles

Doom is one of the most influentioal computer games of all time. Listen to John Romero talk about how they built Doom and relaise that they where proboly more agile in how they developed software back in the early 90’s than most of us are today.

Simple Made Easy

Building systems is not easy and too often we make them more complex. Listen to Rich Hickey talk about thecnics on how to try to make our work simpler.

Get a Whiff of This

Sandi Metz does a deep dive in code smell and why code becomes hard to change and read.

Agile is Dead

Find out why Dave Thomas, one of the author of the agile manifesto for software development, is so upset with “agile” and what we are doing wrong.

#NoEstimates

Is estimates a good thing and do they bring value? Allan Holub can hopefully convince you to think twice next time you try to predict the future.