7: Something Else Was Smellier

Ben Orenstein is once again joined by Joe Ferris, CTO of thoughtbot. Joe and Ben dive right in to a technical discussion about Objects versus Structures. They then discuss what Joe does as the new CTO of thoughtbot, and how his goal is to set up a system where everybody is teaching everybody. Finally, they discuss why Joe doesn't like using rspec's let and subject, and his strategy for writing tests without them.

Object Mentor blog, Objects vs. Structures
Robert Martin Shape Hierarchy (Open Closed Principle)
Martin Fowler's Refactoring
Code smell
Case statement code smell
Visitor pattern
Shotgun surgery
Method object
Composition over inheritance
paperclip
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
thoughtbot's apprentice.io
Parkinson's Law of Triviality (bikeshedding)
Broken windows theory
rspec's let and subject
Mystery Guest

Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @joeferris on twitter.

Ben Orenstein is once again joined by Joe Ferris, CTO of thoughtbot. Joe and Ben dive right in to a technical discussion about Objects versus Structures. They then discuss what Joe does as the new CTO of thoughtbot, and how his goal is to set up a system where everybody is teaching everybody. Finally, they discuss why Joe doesn't like using rspec's let and subject, and his strategy for writing tests without them.

Object Mentor blog, Objects vs. Structures
Robert Martin Shape Hierarchy (Open Closed Principle)
Martin Fowler's Refactoring
Code smell
Case statement code smell
Visitor pattern
Shotgun surgery
Method object
Composition over inheritance
paperclip
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
thoughtbot's apprentice.io
Parkinson's Law of Triviality (bikeshedding)
Broken windows theory
rspec's let and subject
Mystery Guest

Follow @thoughtbot, @r00k, and @joeferris on twitter.

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