Matt, Chris and I were joined yesterday by Sandi Metz for a live google hangout.

You can download an audio only version of the podcsast here.

I’d like to thank Sandi for giving us her time and her insight!

We would love to hear any thoughts you have about the show - either about the content or the format. We’re planning to do a live show about once a month, so if there’s anyone you’d like us to talk to, or any topics you’d like us to cover please let us know.

You can email us at [email protected].

Show notes

We all had a lot of fun and covered quite a few topics:

• The Sandi Meter and the (don’t call them the) “Sandi Metz” rules
• Small Things
• Letting go of the big picture
• “Everything I know now I cargo culted”
• Finding the sweet spot between extremes
• Experimenting
• Object-oriented thinking
• Rails and frameworks
• Testability
  • Tom Stuart - How testability can help
• Open/Closed Principle
• Focus on the messages
• Starting at the whiteboard
• It’s not TDYAR
• End-to-end testing vs isolated testing
• Testing at different levels of granularity
• Tautological TDD
• TDD and driving desing
• Single Responsibility Principle
• Confidence
• #POODL - Practical Object Oriented Design classes with Sandi and Matt in London
• Integration tests and testing roles
• Functional vs Object Oriented
  • Elixir
• Microservices Architecture
  • Fred George on Microservices Architecture
• Readable code
• Imperative vs Declarative approach
• Tell Don’t Ask - What Not How
• Practical Rails Programming
• 99 Bottles of Beer
• T R U E
  • Uncle Bob Martin - Symptoms of Rotting Design
• Exemplary Code
• The pattern failed me
  • All the little things keynote
  • Gilded rose kata
• Code Metrics
  • Flog
  • Code Climate