If you read my blog or if you know me personally, you know I'm a big fan of Unclebob. The reason I admire him is simple: he is a major contributor to the developer community. He writes books and articles, speaks at conferences and contributes to Open Source Software. It inspires me to see that he still have a glowing passion for software development, even though it has been his labor for 35 years. It's the same passion I have right now, but it has only been my labor for 8 years. When I'm turning 40, 50 and 60 I still hope I have this passion in me.

The cool thing about Unclebob is that he does not only talk the talk, but he also walk the walk. A couple of days ago he published a video where he is doing a Prime Factors Kata in Ruby. In this video you'll see mastery of programming. Watch it and enjoy!

I hope I someday can become a master software craftsman like Unclebob. Right now I'm still on my journey.

Read more about coding Katas on Unclebob’s blog.

I give technical presentations from time to time, and use Visual Studio frequently during these presentations. Lots of people have asked me what Theme is use because they think the black background and the font colors are nice.

Here’s what you have been looking for: I use a theme made by Roby Conery. Rob’s theme mimics the Ruby color scheme in TextMate (text editor for Mac).

I use TextMate when programming on my Mac. I typically write programs in Ruby or Python, and I must admit that TextMate has a very nice color scheme for these languages. I especially like the black background because it eases my eyes when looking at the screen.

Here are some samples of this theme: