Podcasts
Exercism.io with Katrina Owen - The Changelog
Katrina Owen is a LCR member. In this episode of The Changelog, she discusses how and why she created Exercism.io, a tool designed to help developers give and receive feedback.
Developer Tea: Makers v Menders with Andrea Goulet
Andrea Goulet curates this newsletter and is an LCR member. Recently, she appeared on the podcast Developer Tea to discuss the difference between developers who enjoy "making" and "mending".
Presentations & Videos
"How to stop hating your tests" by Justin Searls
In this presentation, recorded at RubyConf2015, Justin Searls from Test Double looks at the most common reasons that teams become disillusioned with their tests, and offers some targeted advice to help teams prevent these problems from ever materializing by tweaking their tools, workflow, and perspective.
Test Automation Horror Stories by Nat Pryce
LCR member Nat Pryce shares tales, of true-life troublesome tribulations with testing large, complex projects, and reflections on the lessons learned about how to better integrate test automation into software projects large and small.
Articles & Blogs
Move Fast and Fix Things - GitHub Engineering
Vincent Marti of GitHub writes about the ruthless dedication GitHub has towards constantly maintaining their codebase and battling technical debt.
The Technical Debt Metaphor Is Broken by Martin Cronjé
LCR member Martin Cronjé explores the idea of replacing the metaphor of "technical debt" with a "depreciating asset" instead.
Tools
U.S. Web Design Standards from 18F
Open source UI components and visual style guide for U.S. government websites
CodeKata
A kata is an exercise in karate where you repeat a form many, many times, making little improvements in each. The intent behind code kata is similar.
OzCode: Innovative debugging extension for Visual Studio
Coding in #C? LCR member Llewellyn Falco suggests checking out this debugging tool for VS2015.
Books
The SPIN Selling Fieldbook by Neil Rackham
On one of our recent mastermind calls, Andrea Goulet shared this resource as a workbook for establishing lasting client relationships from the very beginning.
Events
Join a Legacy Code Rocks Mastermind Group
Join a bi-weekly video conference of developers who enjoy working with legacy code bases. Our next meeting will be December 30th at noon Eastern Time. Add this event to your calendar. and head over to the #mastermind channel on Slack for all the details.
Not a member of our Slack community yet? Go to http://slack.legacycode.rocks/ and enter your email address to connect with other folks who enjoy working with existing codebases.
Mob Programming Conference
Learn about the collaborative development style of mob programming, hosted by LCR members Llewellyn Falco and Woody Zuill