This week I’m attending Brian Button’s course on Test Driven Development. As someone who has considered himself an agile programmer for a while now, I’m finding myself more and more enlightened by the core techniques of Martin Fowler’s book, Refactoring. It is one of the texts of this course, and I can’t believe I’ve been coding without this book for so long.

At almost every job I’ve worked here in St. Louis, I’ve seen this book on someone’s desk or in a library area, but I’ve never bothered to pick it up. But after this course, it will be a staple of my (annoyingly ostentatious) desktop bookshelf.