Kevin Baribeau

Portrait of Kevin Baribeau

I’ve been a lover of technology since I first got to play with Eliza the AI therapist on an Atari machine that belonged to my parents. I remember being excited about our upgrade to a 20 megabyte hard drive. When I started programming professionally after finishing University, I realized I was happiest when I was sharing tips and tricks with fellow developers. I’ve focused my career on finding places where I can help people improve their software development craft; usually through pairing and working directly with them on a project.

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Agent 009
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Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Reports from the Field

  2. What happens when you extract a function anyway?

    Imagine you’ve got this snippet of code: (If this looks scary, try reading the original code from testdouble.js—I’ve made some changes to it here that make it a bit uglier)
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    May 28, 2019
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    Kevin Baribeau
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    JavaScript

  3. Do we need dependency injection in Ruby?

    What is Dependency Injection anyway? Do we need it at all in ruby? We'll go over a small example and review how being familiar with DI can lead to a better design.
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    May 17, 2018
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    Kevin Baribeau
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    Ruby

  4. The git sledgehammer

    Completely lost in a nasty git merge conflict? Here's what you do...
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    October 20, 2017
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    Kevin Baribeau
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    Development

  5. An empathetic guide to Git conflicts

    We’ve all seen this story. You’ve worked hard on some cool new stuff and are ready to push, but the universe has other ideas. BBZZZT! Conflict! What do you do?
    Time An icon of a clock Publish Date
    January 25, 2016
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    Kevin Baribeau
    Category An icon of a paper organzier Categories
    Process

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