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.
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...
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...
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...
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) within...
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'...
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...
