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.
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...
A short post about unreasonable usage of State pattern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_pattern] - something I keep seeing every so often in code (regardless of language / platform). What's a State pattern? State pattern is a way to encapsulate state (& behaviour that depends upon it)...
Part I can be found here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/weaving-code-like-a-boss-part-i/] Options considered By now, you should already have an overall idea what I was expecting of my new devmachine. What models did I consider to fulfill these needs? * I didn't consider MacBook Pro /w Retina [http://www....
It's already over 3 months since I've swapped my primary code-crafting devmachine with Dell XPS 13 (2015) [http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9350-laptop/pd] - sounds like the high time for first conclusions & bold statements ^_^ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before that, a brief clarification - I knew...
The term HiPPO [http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/HiPPOs-highest-paid-persons-opinions] ( Highest Paid Person's Opinion) is getting quite popular in project management world (& IT in particular) recently. What's the fuss about? When there's a decision to be taken & various options are discussed, people tend...
Personally I'm a huge fan of information radiators [http://alistair.cockburn.us/Information+radiator] - I love the idea of full transparency & exposing vital, key information on continuously updated, automatically generated (from the single source of truth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Source_of_Truth]) dashboards....
