Archive for November, 2009

November 21, 2009 22

Prime Factors Kata — Flower Duet

By unclebob in Katas, Software Craftsmanship

Here, at long last, is a recording of the Prime Factors Kata in Ruby, done to the tune of the Flower Duet from Lakme’.  This version is much more polished than previous versions, though is still not perfect.  It will take many more weeks of practice to perfect.
Many things have changed since the last version.  [...]

November 17, 2009 0

Sorry for this week

By Corey Haines in Uncategorized

Due to some family illnesses, we probably won’t have a kata this week. I’m going to be putting on up for sure next week: Roy Osherove’s String Calculator. Check it out and feel free to do it in preparation. Sorry about it. But, feel free to watch the previous ones.

November 9, 2009 0

Back to the Checkout

By Chris Parsons in Katas

For this kata I flipped through http://codekatas.org to try and find something that interested me and that wasn’t too similar to some of the others that I knew were being worked on. After a little while, Back to the Checkout stood out.

November 5, 2009 9

Codebreaker – Marking Guesses

By Corey Haines in Katas

So, the RSpec book is almost out of beta. I’ve been through parts of it off and on over the last couple years, and I can highly recommend it. Through the book, as an example of building a real application with the BDD workflow, a codebreaker game is created. The rules are simple: the computer [...]