This week we start off by throwing Jonathan into the deep end of pool where he pairs with an experienced developer on a 10 year old Java project that is the core of our signature product: Backstop. Of course the company is called Backstop Solutions and so, in order to avoid confusion, we gave the project a different name for internal use: Fund Butter. The mystery of how such a terrible thing came to pass is revealed in this very episode.
Our panel (composed of Toby Tripp, Matt Pyra, Eric Johnson, Jonathan Howden, and I) meander through quite a few topics. Here’s a breakdown by time of the various topics:
01:27 Backstop’s 2 day bug bash 02:00 The apprentice has to tackle a 10 year old Java program 06:22 “Everything needs to have an ID if you’re going to make it Hibernate-y” - Jake “super technical” Scruggs 08:21 Why we call Backstop “Fund Butter” within the company 10:50 The apprentice encounters Selenium 12:42 Troubles with regression/integration testing through the web browser. 13:43 “Unit Testing is Dead” - DHH 20:00 Pairing all the time vs code review 21:51 Toby talks about the Hill Air Force Base pair programming study mentioned here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=29410 26:40 The Wall of Awesome - Backstop’s way for employee’s to recognize and thank other employees 47:21 The anti-college movement 49:36 The “Expose your ignorance” apprenticeship pattern with examples/confessions from Jonathan, Jake, and Toby 51:14 The C3 project comes up with near 100% frequency when >= 2 die hard XP'ers are in the same room.
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