Carlos Morera de la Chica

Carlos is a developer who is constantly looking for new ways to master the art of crafting software. He firmly believes in the software craftsmanship principles and bases his journey towards mastery on them.

He has been working professionally as an Android developer for more than 3 years. His current focus is on mastering a new set of skills that will let him continue to grow and make progress in his career.


Publications

Applicative Functors and data validation, part II

In the first part of this series, we went through a basic introduction to Functor and Applicative Functor. In this second part, we will go through an exercise to show how to use them to perform input data validation. Create the types: Address Body Email...


Applicative Functors and data validation

I am currently reading Haskell Programming from first principles, also known as the Haskell book, as part of my journey to learn functional programming. The book has helped me to acquire many new intuitions and I will share two of them, Functors and Applicative Functors....


Conventional Interfaces in Functional Programming

Whilst reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, also known as the SICP book, I discovered the concept of Sequences as Conventional Interfaces. Even though it is an idea that I was somewhat familiar with, it was the first time I encountered a more formal...


Approaching Outside-in TDD on Android III

In the previous post, we wrote the acceptance test as a first step and started creating the classes on the entry points of our system. In this post, we will finish implementing the system, and will summarize what we have learnt during the process. Inner...


Approaching Outside-in TDD on Android II

In the previous post, we introduced the Bank kata. We explained how we are going to implement it in Android, reviewed the different kinds of tests that we use in Outside-in and transformed a user story into a bunch of acceptance criteria. In this second...


Approaching Outside-in TDD on Android I

Outside-in Test-Driven Development (TDD) can be a challenge to implement. In this 3-part post series, Christian and I would like to share our experiences applying it to Android development and offer some practical tips for doing so yourself. In this first post of the series...


The Java Synchronisers

Threads communication happens primarily by sharing access to fields and objects. Although extremely efficient, this form of communication is prone to errors such as thread interference and memory consistency. Synchronization is a tool that helps to prevent such errors. However, synchronization does not come for...


Maven demystified

Due to my Android development background, I am more used to Gradle than to Maven. Although I knew that Gradle was based on Maven, I had never investigated what was going on behind the scenes. During the last week, I have been trying to understand...


What does RESTful really mean

Last month I attended Fast Track to RESTful Microservices training at Skillsmatter. During the course, we explored what REST APIs can offer to web applications in general and microservices communication in particular. Personally, the most important outcome of the course is a better understanding of...


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