Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
BuildStuff 2015 [http://buildstuff.lt/] is over, so is (almost) another season of conferencing. It has left me somewhat ambivalent about whether I'm up for more in 2016 - I've written about that after DevDay 2015 [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/devday-2015-my-evolving-perspective-on-conferences/] already, so I'm...
You've heard about REPL [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop], didn't you? REPL stands for Read Eval Print Loop & it's a common name for platform/language-specific shells that give you the ability to do live programming...
Previous post in the series can be found here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/how-i-got-myself-into-alchemy-part-i/]. Back to potion-mixing business then. I've decided to go for functional chemistry, but should you? Should your pals? Should everybody around because it's presumable The Next Big Thing? Alchemy for the masses...
The Formula IMHO tech skills are 10% talent + 20% engineering common-sense + 20% theoretical knowledge + 50% practical experience. If I've under-estimated any of these, it's most likely (still) the practical experience. Needless to say - it's not ANY practical experience. Going through tutorials on every...
I've encountered a very similar situation in so many companies: their IT landscape grew all the time (while nothing was decommissioned), layers they've initially got became more complicated or even split into sub-layers: sometimes parallel, sometimes stacked. Obviously, different components frequently utilize different technologies, so the...
I am a notorious cheater. * in 2001 I've betrayed Java for .NET * until late 2006-2007 I've been involved in several, stormy romances with unmanaged C++ (we had some past already ...) * around 2011 I began secret meetings with JavaScript, a lot of passion & screaming was involved...
