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Certifications Received

Ivan Moore certifies that Nat Pryce is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill object-oriented software development, based on this evidence:

I have worked with Nat at a couple of different companies over the last few years, and paired on some scrapheap challenges with him.

David Peterson certifies that Nat Pryce is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill of pretty much anything, based on this evidence:

I've known him for several years through London's Extreme Tuesday Club (XTC) and, more recently, I worked with him at Easynet (BSkyB). I still find myself in awe of the depth and breadth of his knowledge. I think he reads computer programs in bed.

He's helped me many times to improve my ideas and code. He also co-authored JMock.

Martijn Meijering certifies that Nat Pryce is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill Extreme Programming, based on this evidence:

His work on Mock Objects shows Nat is capable of innovation. I've seen him give presentations at agile conferences and have had the pleasure to talk with him a couple of times.

I don't know Nat well, so this is a low-weight data point.

Jason Gorman certifies that Nat Pryce is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill Software Design & Agile Practices, based on this evidence:

By reputation, and for his work on mock objects with Steve Freeman. The discussions we've had, plus demos of code he's working on at the XtC, strongly suggest mastery of design and Agile techniques.

Certifications Given

Nat Pryce certifies that Ivan Moore is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill writing expressive code, based on this evidence:

Despite having many years of programming experience under my belt, working with Ivan taught me many simple but effective techniques that help me write code that others find easy to understand. My colleagues and I use the term "Ivan oriented programming" as a shorthand for writing code that clearly expresses the "why" and "what" of the system as well as the "how.

Ivan's series of blog posts on Programming on the Small is an authoritative book on programming style -- a Strunk and White of code, if you will -- waiting to be completed.

Nat Pryce certifies that Steve Freeman is, at a minimum, qualified as a master, capable of innovating in the skill test-driven development, based on this evidence:

Steve was one of the pioneers of test-driven development in the UK programming community and one of the people from whom I learned the practice. I have worked with him on open-source and commercial projects. He always impresses me with his ability to find a way to fit unit-tests around code that I would give up on.

He was one of the originators of the Mock Objects technique and, along with myself, is a co-author of jMock.

He was an early adopter of the FIT framework and has presented and taught courses on testing with FIT.