Open source has moved from being an important actor in software development to being central for plenty of people, especially thanks to Github. Most of us are simple users of OSS (Open-source software) but being brave and taking a step forward and becoming a contributor,...
I'm writing that blog post I never thought I'd write. When I joined Codurance, I knew I was joining something special. I was right. Codurance is going from strength to strength, on the back of that most powerful of technologies: human beings with great willpower,...
Katas are great, but not enough. In the past year I’ve been trying to find ways to teach our craftsmen and apprentices how to design software. Although we could discuss good design principles, it was very difficult to find a way to practice them. Katas...
Almost a month ago, I did this amazing course at SkillsMatter: "Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Immersion Workshop". The course was very intensive and provided me with the opportunity to reinforce a lot of concepts I already knew as well as learn a few more....
It seems that a new paradigm is coming. Facebook and Netflix have come up with different implementations for that idea. Some people are calling it Demand-Driven Architecture, but before I show you some solutions, let's go over some history to understand the problem. I will...
Developers across many organisations adopted code reviews as one of their core practices. Although that sounds like a very reasonable thing to do, over time the goal that led to the adoption of the practice is forgotten and the only thing left is the mindless...
Recently, I decided to include Swagger documentation to our time sheet application. Although Swagger provides tools to help clients integrate with your REST API the most powerful feature, in my opinion, is that it acts as "living documentation" for the API. Adding Swagger to my...
Thinking of code as a beautiful work of art is a mistake. But at the same time we need to start seeing coding as a genuine skill that deserves professional recognition, says leading Software Craftsmanship advocate and JAX London speaker Sandro Mancuso. This interview was...
A Walking Skeleton is a tiny implementation of the system that performs a small end-to-end function. It need not use the final architecture, but it should link together the main architectural components. The architecture and the functionality can then evolve in parallel. Alistair Cockburn One...
In the last couple of weeks I have spent my time doing katas to improve my Objective-C. As you may remember, I had an issue, that you can revisit here. I've learned a lot from other katas too: for instance the RomanNumerals kata... You'd may...
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