A few weeks ago, an interesting discussion arises on twitter (in french, sorry for my foreign readers). In a nutshell, it all started from a (french) post by Arnaud Lemaire about why he hates developers contest, where he explained that this kind of behaviour is infantile. Thomas Pierrain explains why […]
If the hardware has followed the Moore’s law, what happened to software? We have built assembler, and compiler, and high-level language. And now we have powerful machines, and all these shiny new languages and frameworks promising productivity. So why the hell are we still providing lame software? The software crisis […]
I hope some water has gone under the bridge after the “Google memo gate” followed by the “Uncle Bob is a misogynist gate”, so let’s discuss it again. During a few days, I feel almost uncomfortable to read Twitter. I read many anger reactions, many accusations and a few smart […]
Any idea who are William M. Cannon and Dallas K. Perry? Neither do I until a few months ago, and that’s a shame because they have a part of responsibility in the image of software developers. They have discovered that we don’t like people. How do you hire for a […]
“Who is the user of software design”? Some Software Usable Design practitioners think that the user is the developer. I think the answer is not the same in every Dimension. The user of software design is the developer Specifically in the Artefact dimension. Maybe it was the first answer to […]
We assume that less design effort allows producing features faster, in the short term. Less design effort generally means less abstraction, and tighter coupling, in order to produce working code faster. But we tend to overlook the fact that it slows future modifications, even of unrelated features, because of tight […]
In a recent article, David Haney asks if we have forgotten how to program. I think not, rather we evolved. We evolved from writing technical not so useful code to writing specifications. Don’t misunderstand, when I am talking about specifications, I am talking about code. I am talking about coding crystal […]
A few years ago, three co-workers and I decided to work on the concept « hack your job ». We were convinced there was something wrong with recruitment and set out to find a technical solution. We wanted to find a better way to match great developers unable to find interesting […]
DDD, like agile and software craftsmanship, is very hard to teach. We can explain concepts, describe patterns and practices, show some good habits. Still we can’t easily teach them, they are too large. The cognitive load is too heavy. The consequence is that we usually focus on a subset of practices, and claim this is the essence of the principle. […]
“All the brilliant people working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and on the same computer” Woody Zuill A few weeks ago, a co-worker proposed to experiment mob programming. I expected to enjoy this practice, I was actually delighted. Context We are a pizza […]