These days, reading the Goos book, by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce, it reminded me of a project I worked on a while ago. It was a one year old system, poorly tested, integrating to a handful of other systems, and the code-base… well I prefer not to remember. Despite this scenario, I joined the [...]

This week, during another refactoring session, I had the idea that every time I come across code that needs to be modified to conform to one of the principles of best practices for software development, I’ll modify it and share the solution through this blog, exploring its drawbacks, benefits gained by conforming to the principle [...]

Currently I’m working on my personal project, aiming to increase my Ruby On Rails skills. It’s quite a simple system for my dad’s company and one of the features is to register his clients. I started it out writing the Specs and as I’m new to the Ruby world, doubts started to pop inside my [...]