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Can you do test-driven development with React? Can you test-drive the UI itself? And why would you even want to?

With React and some extra tools, testing at least some aspects of the UI is easy. In this video series, I’ll show you how.

Earlier this autumn, I attended the “Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) Certified Practitioner” training and then I also became a certified trainer for TBR. After the “certifed course”, to be allowed to run “TBR Certified Practitioner” trainings, we had to complete some writing assignments.

My first assignment was:

A fellow trainer who is a colleague and friend of yours has asked for your help in designing and delivering a new course. But your friend has no idea how to use brain-based training design and delivery strategies. How would you help your friend get started? What information would you consider crucial for your friend's success and how would you explain this information to him/her?

And here is what I wrote…

I spoke about “3X thinking” with Antony Marcano. 3X was originally coined by Kent Beck and it describes the “profile of a winning idea”. 3X thinking will help you to determine whether it’s best to experiment, scale or operate for any given idea.

In this first video, Antony and I talk about the basics: What is 3X thinking and how can it help you as a developer, manager or C-level executive?

Read the whole transcript below the video.

How does an idea become a winning idea?

In Summer 2019, I interviewed Antony Marcano about “3X Thinking”, and this led me to “explore” (ha!) a bit more. Here, I want to collect the interviews with Antony any my own thoughts and ideas about the topic.

Read / watch all parts of “#3Xthinking” here:

• 3X Thinking Part 2: Advanced Topics
• 3X Thinking Part 1: eXplore, eXpand eXtract
• 3X Thinking - All Posts

Tim tells me about his podcast “Developer’s Journey”. There, he interviews software developers about their career, what is important to them, and more.

I interviewed Simon Harrer at Developer Week 2019 in Nürnberg, where we talked about his book “Java by Comparison”. With this book, you will learn how to write clean and maintainable code in object-oriented languages.

Simon Harrer talks about how to avoid negations in your code…

I interviewed Simon Harrer at the Developer Week conference about his book, “Java by Comparison”.

If your employer asked you do do something unethical or something you would not want to do for any other reason, would you tell them “fuck you” an leave?

What would have to be true so that you could do that?

“Why are good people stuck in bad jobs?”

I read that on a whiteboard somewhere and immediately regretted that I missed that discussion.

Now, I decided to start a short video series around the topic.