Most of the attention in software architecture is given to new styles (eg. microservices, serverless) or technology changes. Too little attention is given to the process of creating, evolving, and maintaining the architectural models and decisions. Yet this process is immensely valuable since with the right process you can adopt innumerable architectural styles and adapt […]
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In which we realize that proponents of strong types focus a lot on the mathematical constructs and have a blind spot for the other superpower of code designers: naming.
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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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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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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
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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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When you think about type safety, what do you think about? Alex asked this question on social media, got some interesting answers, and ended up defining a few principles for a style of programming with “hidden types” as follows: A) I don’t define types for method and function parameters, or class membersB) I validate a
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For a few days, Lebanon had two time zones at the same time on the same territory. This shows once again that “one will be more” when it comes to the evolution of software products. A brief reaction video from Alex.
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