Talks
Home-cooked Software: A Backup Tale
Chunkyard is a backup tool that I have been building for myself over the last five years. It's a hobby project with which I can follow my curiosity to learn and enjoy different aspects of software development. Since I am the only real user, I can do whatever I feel like. In this talk I am going to share what I have learned over the years while building this tiny piece of "home-cooked software". Stories include:
- Learning more about encryption, content-defined chunking and content-addressable storage
- Doing "stupid" things like using a text editor and a terminal instead of an IDE
- Deepening my knowledge about automated tests by going "all in"
- Building my own command line parser just for fun
- Complaining about performance because I have no idea how computers work
- That C# is a decent language/environment, even on Linux
- The joy and fulfilment that hobby projects can give
Automated Unit Tests: The Hard Parts
The introduction tutorials for automated test frameworks make it look so easy. Write some code, write a few tests and you're done. But when dealing with production code we often run into problems and learn, that the real world is different. This workshop explores challenges and solutions to create a suite of automated tests in C#:
- Learn new aspects of how to think about code
- Try different testing strategies
- Explore techniques to make tests readable and fun