This conversation is part of the Agile Challenges series. Alex Bolboaca is a programmer, CTO, author, trainer and coach at Mozaic Works. Mozaic Works provides high quality, customized training, coaching, and advice for companies who want to improve their effectiveness in the market, mainly through the use of modern leadership and technical practices. Check out... Read more
Alex sat down with Alan Wirfs-Brock, a pioneer of personal computing best known for his work on Smalltalk and on Javascript standardization. We discussed about the historical context and the reasons for OOP to appear, the initial OOP vision, the Smalltalk implementation, Javascript standardization, and finally about ambient computing. This conversation is part of the... Read more
Alex sat down with Alan Wirfs-Brock, a pioneer of personal computing best known for his work on Smalltalk and on Javascript standardization. We discussed about the historical context and the reasons for OOP to appear, the initial OOP vision, the Smalltalk implementation, Javascript standardization, and finally about ambient computing. This conversation is part of the... Read more
Alex sat down for an hour with Peter Hilton, to discuss technical documentation practices. Documentation is one of the things that most programmers know is important but would prefer to avoid it. Peter gives us a few hints on how to write just enough documentation, and how to do it in a way that’s useful.... Read more
Brief Update: Due to our customers’ requests, we’ve just launched a new service: Since we are facing now a significant migration towards remote work, we decided to do a live stream and share our experience with working remotely in agile. Our experience includes a period of 9 months when Mozaic Works functioned as a completely... Read more
We had the chance to discuss with David Schmüdde, artist and programmer, passionate about functional programming, and tuned to the humanistic aspects of software development and computers’ role in society. We spent one hour discussing many interesting topics: functional programming, the humanistic aspects of programming, creating art with code, augmented intelligence, and the future of... Read more
In this video, we discuss with Diana about her experience when starting as a Scrum Master. Before becoming a Scrum Master, Diana was working in HR and was studying psychology as a second specialization. Although coming from outside IT, her inclination and her training in psychology helped her bind the team together and be appreciated... Read more
Diana shares her biggest challenge as a new Scrum Master. This conversation is part of the Agile Challenges series. Diana Istrate is a Scrum Master working in Bucharest, Romania. You can find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diistrate/. Visit the channel and subscribe
After discussing about Behavior Driven Development (BDD) history, scenario automation and unit testing, we go way beyond that. We discuss about Complexity, Cynefin Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework then about management and the biggest problems we now have in software development. We also discuss about the origins of the Three Amigos: one who has the problem, one who... Read more
In a recent series of tweets, I expressed my disappointment with the software development industry. One of the tweets has generated more conversations than I expected, so I decided to explain it in more detail. In this video, I’m presenting 3 reasons why programming is a deeply humanistic activity, and how this statement does not... Read more
One of the oldest software development communities is also one you’ve probably not heard too much about. We’ve had the pleasure to discuss the reach history of PLoP, design patterns, architecture, microservices, and many others with Joe Yoder. Joe Yoder has been involved for 25 years in the design patterns community (so-called Patterns Language of... Read more
One of the oldest software development communities is also one you’ve probably not heard too much about. We’ve had the pleasure to discuss the reach history of PLoP, design patterns, architecture, microservices, and many others with Joe Yoder. Joe Yoder has been involved for 25 years in the design patterns community (so-called Patterns Language of... Read more
Before the CppEurope 2020 conference, Alex Bolboaca had the chance to discuss about the state of cross-platform C++ tools with Augustin Popa, Program Manager at Microsoft C++, and with Elizabeth Morrow, Software Engineer on the C++ Cross Platform IDE Experience team. We looked at debugging support, at introducing various OS and container targets for your... Read more
Liz Keogh tells the story of how Behavior Driven Development (BDD) started, its history and some more interesting details. This interview is part of the BDD challenges series. Liz Keogh is an independent Lean and Agile consultant based in London. She is a well-known blogger and international speaker, a core member of the BDD community... Read more
Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is a core technique for analysis and refinement of software requirements. In this conversation, we deep dive into the practical aspects of BDD usage, including a few examples of the core techniques. This interview is part of the BDD challenges series. Alex Bolboaca is a programmer, CTO, author, trainer and coach... Read more
As discussed in the past videos, we are proposing a new method for refactoring legacy code: first, refactor through safe mechanics towards pure functions then, write automated tests for pure functions using data-driven and property-based tests finally, refactor the pure functions to classes (or something else). This is part 1 of the codecast in which... Read more
This is a brief part of a longer conversation with Thomas Sundberg on Behavior Driven Development (BDD). While BDD is a very useful technique, are there times when it doesn’t apply? Turns out that, like any tool, it has its limitations. This interview is part of the BDD challenges series. Alex Bolboaca is a programmer,... Read more
This is a brief part of a longer conversation with Thomas Sundberg on Behavior Driven Development (BDD). One of the main techniques in Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is Example Mapping. Watch a brief example of example mapping in practice. This interview is part of the BDD challenges series. Alex Bolboaca is a programmer, CTO, author,... Read more
When we transform a data format into another, we often pass through an intermediary, nominal format. The question is: is there a nominal format for software design? During a longer conversation about refactoring legacy code through pure functions, Alex Bolboaca advances the idea that a good candidate for a nominal format for software design is... Read more