About

Andrea is a professional software developer and has accrued many years of experience building solid applications.

Like many developers, Borland Delphi played a major part of her early career. She then moved on to C# and the .Net framework, she was influenced by the ideas and principles of Ruby and Rails. These principles led her to the Castle Project and that opened the door to many open source projects.

Andrea is involved in the organisation of Alt Net in Dublin. She is a keen musician and music enthusiast.

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Thanks to Craig, Martha, Colin and Andrew for all the help make sense of this bio.

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1 Nadya on 15/07/2009 said:

Hi, I really like it here on your blog!!!
2 Michael on 04/10/2011 said:

Hi Andrea,

I was at your Code Kata session during the Developer Developer Developer conference Belfast.

You mentioned you would have liked to see the solution in Common Lisp (CL), after I mentioned it. I think these Katas are a neat idea so I decided to code it. check link below.

http://paste.lisp.org/display/125071

You mentioned about unit testing CL, there is actually less need for formal unit testing frameworks with CL due to fact it is a dynamic language that allows interactive programming, having a REPL. But I decide to whip something together anyway, the top 2/3 of the code is the “testing framework” if you can really call it that; I just whipped it together in little over 1/2 hour.
3 roundcrisis on 05/10/2011 said:

Hi Michael: Thanks for the message, that’s an interesting solution.