simple exercise

A couple of weeks ago, I was attending a three-day workshop for agile developer skills. The workshop was split into five topics: Colaboration, Refactoring, Design & Architecture, Continious Integration and Test Driven Development.

Especially the session about Test Driven Development was very interesting. Although I know the principles of TDD I was really impressed by the demonstration of solving a simple exercise (a coding kata) done in Java by the instructors of the workshop.

Back in the mid-90s, when Linux was still at 1.something, website design was a simple exercise that left matters such as font choice up to the user.

It was blessedly free of the Tyranny of Typography, the Legacies of Layout, and other controlling influences from the Provinces of Print.

Better yet, it was free by design from withering rebuke by aesthetes whose high-minded "taste" made life miserable for both writers and readers.

Back then

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