I was recently pushed out of my comfort zone by some young software dev. She pointed out that talking about code as a craft, like in software crafting, is a way to be a gatekeeper in tech. This is the kind of remark I like a lot, because it firmly […]
A recent article in a huge French paper creates lots of discussion in the tech community.In a nutshell, a French headhunter was complaining about the salary for developers, talking about salary up to 100k or 200k before 30 years old. In his opinion it was quite indecent, and developers should […]
In all advices we receive as software programmer, one of the most misunderstood (just after don’t repeat yourself) is don’t reinvent the wheel.Of course, it seems pretty obvious that if we re-do everything all the time, the whole industry won’t evolve at all. But when we dig enough, it is […]
A few days ago I asked you to think about how to define your job as a software developer in a single sentence. This question is highly correlated to the question of what’s programming.That’s why an article on the matter was pointed to me on twitter in response to my […]
Because you’ll have many family’s meals in the upcoming days, it might be a good idea to train yourself in order to explain your developer job to the mere mortals in a single sentence. It may avoid the classical “can you fix my printer” or “can you check my wifi” […]
When was your last breakthrough about software development? I think I can resume mine in 4 steps: 1- Writing test is not optional to handle complex system 2- Good architecture is not optional to write test 3- Most programs are built with a CRUD approach, which isn’t easy to maintain […]
It is well known today that building software is a really personal experience. Old studies have proven that the best software engineers don’t like people. According to M. Cannon and Dallas K. Perry, they dislike people activities involving close personal interaction. Hopefully it totally makes sense doesn’t it? Just to […]
Let me tell you a story.This is a story about a brand new software project, using last technologies and mobile devices, a really important project for BigCorp. They want to use this new product as a vitrine to show how good they are to create mobile applications. The gold rush […]
I like to read technical blogs. I do it daily since a few years now, and I really enjoy the way in which this community is sharing in order to improve. I would argue that it’s an efficient way to raise the bar of the software industry. There is one […]
An interesting discussion including Yannick Grenzinger, Romeu Moura and Daniel Gonçalves has recently happened on Twitter. Thanks mates for the respectful and enlightening exchange. It started from this: The first objection was from Yannick Grenzinger: Which, as Daniel Gonçalves noticed, resonates a lot with an older tweet from Nicole Rauch: I […]