Software design is all the rage now. It looks like every year a few more design ideas appear. First there were the GoF design patterns. Now, MVC is the way to do web applications, while ideas like: domain driven design, ports and adapters, microservices see increase interest and adoption. I learned software design by doing, […]
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Every week, me and Claudia discover 2-3 potential bugs in the product we are developing during our code review sessions. This happens despite a very structured way of work and despite applying ATDD and Test First / TDD. Yet developers and technical leads complain to me in the community or during coaching sessions and workshops
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Last week, a friend of mine asked an interesting question: “Have you ever seen a code base without compromises?”. We debated for a while and very quickly realized that this question is meaningless. The first thing I’ve learned about engineering (and, as a result, software design) is that any solution has advantages and disadvantages. Any
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I have made a new step towards becoming a journeyman while participating for the first time at SoCraTes Germany on 7th-10th August. It was one of those experiences that made me say that being a developer is interesting, challenging, rewarding and fun. 2 days of coffee breaks The unconference consists of 2 days with open space sessions
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When was the last time you spent a full day just to practice new ways of coding? Back in 2008 four guys met during a conference and tried to encourage more people to engage in deliberate practice. This is how the Coderetreat concept was born. Briefly, a Coderetreat consists of 5-7 programming sessions of 45 minutes. The main characteristic of these sessions is
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The first version of this article was published in Today Software Magazine, no 24. Below it is an updated version. The authors: Adrian Bolboacă and Alexandru Bolboacă The Beginnings How fast could you create a software product starting from an idea? This is the purpose of this article. We will explain our concept, from a technical
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As supporters and contributors to software craft community we love to make visible the values and thoughts of experienced practitioners over the world. Here is what Sandro Mancuso shared with us just few days before I TAKE Unconference 2014, where he is present for the second time. Where did you get the idea for London Software Craft Community
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This article was initially published in Today Software Magazine, no 23. The authors are: Adrian Bolboacă and Alexandru Bolboacă. The natural career of a software developer is: junior programmer, senior programmer, technical lead / team leader, optionally architect and then it turns into management. There’s something paradoxical about this path: the career that started with
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Not long ago, one of my colleaques asked me what is the way that helps me more to learn. My quick answer was “Through stories”. I was sure about it because I have an experience to confirm it. This experience was the talk that Rebecca Wirfs-Brock have given last year at I TAKE Unconference. It
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Until recently, I tought I didn’t like Functional Programming (FP). I like OOP and DDD. During university I was in love with Java and I hated Haskel and Prolog. This changed last year at I T.A.K.E. Unconference when Cyrille Martraire showed us that using FP can be easy with DDD and its advantages are great
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