Archive - Habitable Code

Functions with multiple parameters

Looking at one aspect of Connascence of Position

Sep 2, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

TDD: Three easy mistakes

TL;DR Small increments of value

Aug 12, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

Javascript Checkout 1

In which you get to read along while I work on a popular code kata

Sep 16, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

Writing a dozen or more lines of code to get to GREEN

Aug 26, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

Shotgun surgery

Possibly my favourite code smell

Aug 5, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

Estimating user stories

The 5-day challenge

Jul 22, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

What happened to Connascence?

Those of you who used to read my previous blog, or who have attended my training courses and public workshops, will know that I espoused Connascence for…

Apr 14, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

Chasing an assumption

Exploring a few cycles of outside-in development

Aug 26, 2024 •

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Javascript Checkout 2

In which I use the 4 Rules of Simple Design to prioritise my refactoring

Sep 20, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

Clean code: what is it?

A while back I helped facilitate some discussion workshops on the topic of Clean Code.

Apr 5, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

Javascript Checkout 4

In which we consider self-similarity, and a branch is created!

Sep 27, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

Javascript Checkout -- Triangulation 4

Decisions, decisions ...

Oct 7, 2022 •

Kevin Rutherford

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