Prompted by an article about 5 types of architectural diagrams optimized for different audiences, we look into the things that are needed from architectural diagrams, and how they compare between the UML, agile, C4, and this new model. Links:
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The concept of affordance was introduced by Donald Norman in his seminal book on usability “The Design of Everyday Things”. Affordances refer to parts of the design that point to the possibility of acting on them. Any design needs affordances, but when we aim for usability they need to clearly communicate their goal and way
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Thierry de Pauw is thinking about creating a talk on “Pull Requests are evil”, so to help him we decided to discuss the pros and cons of pull requests. Happy learning! Links:
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In one of our previous videos, we mentioned connascence without going into details. Prompted by a comment, here is a 20 minutes explanation of this complex concept. Enjoy! Links:
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A recent study showed that introducing Github Copilot as a dev AI assistant has led to situations when developers spend quite a lot of their time dealing with the AI instead of developing. We review this study and share some ideas around the use of AI in development. Links:
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In a recent talk, Dan North shed more light on his criticism of SOLID and Scrum. The talk is very interesting, so we watched it and we have thoughts. Here’s the TLDR: It seems that Dan North has identified a new context for software development that doesn’t fit SOLID and Scrum that much. It’s a
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Estimation in software development is challenging, but there’s no other way. Or is there? In this explainer, we look at methods that use past data – cycle time and cycle time distribution – to predict future outcome. These methods can be tested in parallel with your current way of estimating, until you feel confident that
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A revaluation of our practices and patterns happens every few years, and it seems to happen again today. The usual result is that a reaction to the existing practices results into other practices who have more or different sets of problems. One of the goals of this channel is to help avoid the loss of
Dependency Injection Is Good … In Moderation Read More »
29th February 2024 is a few months away, hopefully a long enough time to find and solve your leap year bugs. So it’s time to look for them! In this video, we discuss the main challenges of DateTime and recommend how to avoid them and how to test easily to find your issues before they
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How do we validate email addresses correctly? And why don’t we just validate by sending an email? Turns out, there are security considerations to take into account. In this video, Alex presents the main parts of email address validation, the reasoning for each of them, and a few tips on how to think and implement
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