Software is similar to exactly nothing we had in this world until it has emerged. Ephemeral, not physical but with constantly growing physical indirect effects on our world. Software development has started as a small, isolated industry (focused on actual computing) but now it's powering up almost every...
Programming is not an art. Programming is not a discipline of science either. It's a craft - very special kind of craft: * it requires imagination & creativity somehow similar to what art requires * it has very strong scientific foundations, especially in terms of various areas of mathematics * but...
To make something better is a great feeling. But is 'better' equivalent to 'as good as possible'? Is it 'the best'? > * how would Jon Skeet (or any other authority) do it? * is it SOLID enough? * wouldn't code reflect domain model better...
What I'm going to write below is nothing new for anyone who've done fully fledged distributed systems development. BEAM veterans, hAkkers, Rafters, ZooKeeper consensus pursuers or Paxos tribe would probably call me Cpt. Obvious, but surprisingly (or not) majority of .NET people I meet & talk...
Jurgen Appelo did it again - he has kinda shot 140 char Twitter cannon in a way that has nail'd the point completely: > You're a Thought Leader? Who cares?! Better aim to become an Action Leader. — Jurgen Appelo (@jurgenappelo) June 9, 2015 [https://twitter.com/...
There are important thinking barriers to cross (break?) in a professional career of a software engineer. They are marked with some sort of epiphanies, for instance: > 1. "WTF?! I have to work with this legacy code, instead of creating something completely new?" 2. "WTF?! How can...
