by Danielle Withers | Sep 22, 2017 | Books, Software craftsmanship
We, developers, are optimists. Though we are not so delusional as to think that the development process will run “perfectly”, we believe anything can be overcome with grit, mental sweat, and caffeine. We see the light at the end of the tunnel, and endure...
by Mike Clement | Sep 19, 2017 | Community, Event report, Events, Learning, Mob Programming, Software craftsmanship
Three developers from Greater Sum spoke last weekend at Atlanta Code Camp! Embedded below are the slidedecks from these presentations. If these sound interesting, you can ask for one of these to be given at your meetup or company! Develop your Sense of Code Smell It...
by Mark Lamson | Sep 13, 2017 | Growth, Learning, Mob Programming, Software, Software craftsmanship, Teams
If you have never pair programmed, or if you have, and had a bad experience with it, I am here to urge you to give it another chance. Here I will introduce you to some easy to follow guidelines to make pair programming successful through a technique called...
by Leah Wynn | Sep 2, 2017 | Learning, Software, Unit testing
Coming fresh out of code school, everything I knew was about developing in Ruby on my Macbook. Since joining as an apprentice here at Greater Sum, I can say that one of my biggest challenges has been learning to develop in strongly typed languages. Luckily, we focus...
