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Peter 'Codecop' Kofler

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Peter Kofler is a software developer since 22 years and still enthusiastic about writing code. He likes his code being in order. Obviously he is fanatic about code quality. After years of harassing his colleagues with clean code and daily build, he was officially appointed "Code Cop" in 2006. He helps teams of Software Developers to raise the quality of their work and improve their productivity. He regularly facilitates Coding Dojos and Code Retreats. ...more

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Improving the Harness

[image error] Now that GenAI is all the rage, I will share more about it. Kent Beck says "nobody knows for sure, we can just explore and share what we found".

Here is a little trick I use to improve my AI workflow. Birgitta Böckeler defines harness as the support we give a coding agent to help it do its job, so harness engineering is all the work we do around that to make that possible. A part o Read more of this blog post »

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

by Alfred V. Aho

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The Little Schemer

by Daniel P. Friedman

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

by Harold Abelson

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