Tidy First?
A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design

The book seems to be a combination of two separate papers. The first half of the book covers basic code cleaning patterns, which may not be of much use to experienced software engineers. However, the second half of the book is much more interesting, providing an insightful analysis on the cost and b......more

Great insights. At the same time, most of its content is nothing "totally new", but the reminders are always worthy as well as a few wisdom pearls. Too short for the price, I would say, but I decided to approach it as a collaboration for all the amazing content shared by Kent Beck during the last yea......more

It should have been a blog post but somebody is trying to extract maximum financial value. If you are early (2-3 years) into programming then it has specific nuggets for you (early return, new interface old implementation, explain variables, delete dead code, etc.) to do structural changes (no behavi......more

This books has a lot to say not only on software design, but also on programmer behaviors. As expected Kent Beck advocates for programmers and in this piece he tries as much as possible to close this relationship with all of us. Luckily enough with lots of insights he won the battle between software......more

Good stuff. Short sentences, short chapters (usually just one or two pages). To the point. Mostly common sense (at least to me), but will be useful when arguing with other people who don't "get it".......more