LTGW2014: resources from our workshop

Yesterday, Jenny Mulholland (from Softwire) and I & ran our workshop on JavaScript for Testers at the London Tester Gathering Workshops 2014, at Skills Matter. We had a nice group of participants with a wide range of kills and knowledge and we covered (roughly)...

Understanding JavaScript Errors

There is no magic in programming languages. The fact that they are formal languages makes them deterministic. For every behaviour there is a reason. For every error there is a logical cause. Before googling for an odd error message, try to understand what the...

Programmer’s memory

By pairing with a wide variety of other programmers, I’ve noticed that the programmer’s memory has an important impact on the productivity. In order to be agile searching for code blocks within a file, we must remember the structure of the code, be...