060: Coping with Complexity with Kent Beck




Greater Than Code show

Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>This episode is sponsored by </b><a href="https://cohere.city/"><b>Cohere</b></a><b>!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-1076" src="http://www.greaterthancode.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Cohere-1024x387.png" alt="" width="426" height="161"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Cohere believes better teams make better products. </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Visit </b><a href="https://www.wecohere.com/greaterthancode"><b>wecohere.com/greaterthancode</b></a><b> to learn how your team can become greater than code.</b></p> <hr> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://twitter.com/jameybash"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jamey Hampton</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="http://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ReinH"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rein Henrichs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> |<br> </span> <a href="https://twitter.com/CoralineAda"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coraline Ada Ehmke</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">|</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kent Beck: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/KentBeck"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@KentBeck</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extreme Programming</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> |<br> </span><a href="http://agilemanifesto.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Agile Manifesto</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">| </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/013476904X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=013476904X&amp;linkId=a629dc2d7f051450bfb3cee30e4083a4"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>01:19</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Kent’s Superpower: Putting Things Together That Don’t Necessarily Go Together</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465018475/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=therubyrep-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=0465018475&amp;linkId=6b695b9a8370a14771836fb3671d11e5"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">by Douglas Hofstadter and‎ Emmanuel Sander</span></a></p> <p><b>04:01 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Metaphors in Software Development</span></p> <p><b>07:32 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Writing Tests and Keeping a Journal</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">The unit/integration distinction confuses me. I test at the level of, “Here’s a thought I need to capture.”<a href="https://twitter.com/KentBeck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KentBeck</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/greaterthancode?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@greaterthancode</a></p> <p>— Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) <a href="ht"></a></p> </blockquote>