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After being away for a couple weeks due to conferences and sickness, we present another entry in our “Same Kata, Different Languages” series: the String Calculator in Groovy by Itay Maman. This will most likely be the last of the String Calculator katas for a while, as we’ve been doing them for a long time [...]

Continuing our series of ‘Same Kata, Different Languages,’ we have a very special performance in Python by Gary Bernhardt: Gary Bernhardt is an independent software contractor in Seattle specializing in the dynamic languages Python and Ruby. A brutal minimalist, he is bent on the destruction of all existing software except Emacs and Vim, the two One True Editors. Gary’s a [...]

Roy Osherove and Gil Zilberfeld of TypeMock talked about the katacast series on their podcast, ‘This Week in Testing,’ and called me out to do Roy’s standard TDD practice, String Calculator. There are a few screencasts of this kata in C# linked from his page, which are well-worth watching. It is always interesting seeing the [...]

My inaugural code kata is the venerable Ruby Quiz #14: LCD Numbers. This is a fun exercise, as it exists it two distinct parts: single-digit and multi-digit. I appreciate the natural move between them, and I often find myself focusing on one side or the other, starting from scratch and working until I have single-digit [...]