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Monday, March 05, 2012 9:32 AM

From Manual to Automated QA

Here is (and also below) a short lecture (In Hebrew) I gave during the Agile Practitioners 2012 conference. The lecture summarizes the lessons we learned at PicScout (also here ) while introducing more and more automation to our QA team.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012 11:23 PM

Tenth Software Craftsmanship In Israel Meeting

On our tenth Software Craftsmanship meeting I was very excited to host Corey Haines . Corey flew to Israel on Tuesday just to conduct 2 code retreats on Wednesday and Thursday so obviously he was a bit tired when we gathered for the meeting. Corey gave a short talk, concentrating on reminding us what is the value for the business that we should provide. Here it is: After the talk we broke into pairs in order to hand interpreter a Piet language. Piet is a stack based language whose programs are bitmaps...
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Thursday, January 05, 2012 5:53 PM

Two Code Retreats & 10th Software Craftsmanship Meeting with Corey Haines

I am very happy to announce a few very interesting events, coming at the end of this month: Code Retreat with Corey Haines: Corey Haines is a Journeyman who went for an year of pair-programming tour. Corey is highly involved with the Software Craftsmanship movement and is a frequent speaker on various conferences on the matters of code quality, skills and professionalism. We will host 2 code retreats events on January the 25th and January the 26th (These are the same events, so please register only...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011 10:06 AM

Ninth Software Craftsmanship Meeting

Our ninth #SCISR meeting took place on this monday. I really enjoyed the mingling, the discussions and the energy in the air. This time we had an open panel with Ran Tavory, Elad Sofer and Lior Schejter talking about their experiences in Software Development. I will post a detailed post about the meeting, but for now you can find below the recording of the session. Software Craftsmanship in Israel Group Meeting #9 (Hebrew) by urilavi
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Saturday, October 02, 2010 7:13 PM

The Importance of Mentorship

It's hard to become a professional. It's even harder to become a professional Software Engineer . Last week, during a small management conference I bumped into an old friend of mine, who I didn't see for a couple of years. Being a leader of a software engineering group, he was frustrated and worried: "I have a group of 20 people, working hard to meet harsh deadlines. The project has just started, but most of the software engineers are already not pleased. There are junior developers...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:51 PM

Effective Code Review - A Presentation

Here is a short presentation I did a while ago on a Code Review process. I am sure, there are a lot of different ways to do code review, but the following served me well in the past. One important note to bare in mind is that a Code Review cannot take more than a few hours. People get tired easily; It's difficult to read somebody else's logic (code) and even more: to understand and to pinpoint the problems. Therefore the Code Review process should be effective and highly cohesive as much...
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Monday, August 16, 2010 9:13 AM

Short Roman Numeral Kata

For our second Software Craftsmanship Coding Dojo , I have prepared a "Short Roman Numeral" Kata. In essence, a Short Roman Numeral is a number between 0 to 3999 that has a ToString() method which returns its roman presentation. The rules of roman presentation construction can be found here . After the meeting, I took some time in order to record the Code Kata. As you probably know it is extremely difficult to produce a well synchronized recording . Hence, after a few sleepless nights I...
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Saturday, June 12, 2010 4:18 PM

Software Craftsmanship - Meeting 1

Wow, this month was a tough one: Lots of new opportunities to explore, presentations and lectures to give and of course the day to day work to deliver :). You have probably seen several blogs and summaries of our first Software Craftsmanship group meeting, so I won't go into details. Below are the recorded session along with he presentation slides. I have shorten the session and extracted some key notes that were discussed: Why Software Craftsmanship is needed? What is Software Craftsmanship...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:20 PM

First Meeting of the "Software Craftsmanship in Israel" Group

I am pleased to announce that we are planning to have our fist “Software Craftsmanship in Israel” group meeting on Wednesday, May 26th . Who should attend? Everybody who cares about Software Development as a Professional . You are welcome to pass this announcement onto anyone you think may be interested . Does the meeting require any knowledge of a specific technology? NO. NONE. ZIPPO. The sole purpose of “Software Craftsmanship” is to improve our skills in Software Engineering and Development and...
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Sunday, March 07, 2010 1:04 AM

Prime Factors Kata

One of the key aspects of a Software Craftsmanship is constant practice. Kata (from Martial Arts) is one form of such practice. The notion of a Code Kata was first introduced by Dave Thomas and can be viewed as: Practice of the same methods, solutions and activities to a perfection. Practice of the same problem, tackling it each time from a different angle or with a different solution. Solving a known problem multiple times utilizing the same methods, enhances the understanding of the specific steps;...
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Friday, December 04, 2009 9:05 AM

Experts Days - 2009

This week we concluded the Experts Days . The sessions were effectively organized (by Eyal Vardi from E4D ), the audience was amazing and the atmosphere was energizing . Here are the headlines of my sessions: I. What's new in .NET 4.0 and VS 2010: The main focus was to emphasize the most important (in my opinion) upcoming features. Here they are: Task Parallel Library, PLINQ and Coordination Data Structures Code Contracts Reaction (Rx) Framework Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Dynamic Language...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:27 PM

Refactoring & Design Podcast

Here is a short podcast I participated in; the subject is Refactoring & Design. Many thanks to Ran & Ori !!!
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:37 PM

Shooting without Aiming

During my lectures on “Refactoring & Design” I am frequently amazed to hear the following ideas: “Doesn’t Design contradict Agile? Isn’t Agile about gaining speed, while Design about gaining bureaucracy?” - some ask. “Why bother with Design? Eventually It’s impossible to do any design when using Agile methods, like TDD” - others continue. I often compare the aforementioned questions to “ Shooting without Aiming ”. It won’t occur to shoot at a target without first aiming at it. The rule is true...
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