Software Craft

After I had some fun with the Ruby exercises, week 2 brings a language that’s new to me. Or at least it was new to me as I started reading about the Io language about half a year ago. Like I wrote in the introduction post I spent some more time with Io and came to write iospec, a small BDD-style test library that is inspired by Ruby’s RSpec. Read more

My journey through these seven different programming languages starts with a language I am already familiar with: Ruby. Even so the chapter was an interesting read and provided some new background information. Read more

A while ago I bought the book Seven Languages in Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate. Read more

Yesterday I send out a tweet in which I claimed that Mockito and clean tests seem not to go hand in hand. It triggered some reactions on which I’ll elaborate in this post a bit more than in the Twitter conversations. Read more

JavaScript (both the language itself and libraries such as Underscore) provides many functions that use closures. A closure is a block of code that is passed as an argument to a function or returned from a function. In JavaScript you pass in that code in the form of a function. Read more

In my previous article about JavaScript: Objects, Prototypes and Inheritance I wrote using objects and constructor functions to create object hierarchies in JavaScript. I also over-simplified things a little, to make the whole article a bit more comprehensible. Read more

JavaScript is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language. The prototype-based programming paradigm characterizes itself by the absence of classes. Reuse of behavior is performed by cloning existing objects, known as prototypes. Read more