Welcome back to another episode of Evil Geniuses. Today on the show we welcome back Kirsten Nordine. The last time Kirsten was on the show was a little over a month ago and we talked a little bit about an open source contribution we’re working on but we also talked a lot about her experience going to a POOD Workshop by Sandi Metz in Durham, North Carolina.

In today’s episode, we are talking all about Kirsten and the little vacation she took. Well, not necessarily a vacation but time away from clients to learn more about software development. Kirsten and Emanuel attended Sandi Metz’s new three-day workshop titled POODR Two: Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby. We dive into why they went, what they learned, and the biggest takeaways from the workshop that each of them had. Keep listening to hear more!

 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Wanting steps like rules to architect a solution to something.
• Learning more about how objects work together and the design.
• Day 1 working on a bowling exercise — website code kata and sequence diagrams.
• Day 2 focusing away from the code and more towards drawing and talking.
• Designs centered around what message the objects sent and received.
• Sandi’s helpful way of simplifying things.
• Why code is easy and organizing code is hard.
• The role of TDD and design.
• Finding our where the first test should be.
• Designing a new story, finding a way to communicate and start writing code.
• And much more!

 

Talking Points

• Why did you go?
• What did you do?
• What is special about learning from Sandi?
• What are we going to do after? How are we going to practice until we’ve fully learned the  things introduced at the class?
• What is the main takeaway?
• What are some things you would change about the class?

 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Evil Geniuses on Twitter

Kirsten Nordine

Kristin on Twitter

Sandi Metz

Stride

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