BarCamp Tampa Bay has come and gone for 2014. This year’s event was held on Saturday, October 18th at USF’s College of Business. It was my first BarCamp event, and being billed as “a day by geeks, for geeks, and about geeks” I was really looking forward to it. I’ve written up a review of the conference in general and of the sessions I attended from this year’s event.

This is a question that brings out very strong beliefs on either side. On one side of the room are those who stand firmly opposed to writing tests to cover coded solutions. They claim things like “It costs more money to ‘waste’ time on writing tests….