“I’m not a great programmer; I’m just a good programmer with great habits.” You have probably already heard this famous quote by Kent Beck. It is one of the most insightful quotes I heard in my career, because it carries hope.Hope that you, me, anybody can become great by relying […]
And trust me, when I say “most developers” I include myself as I am now, or as I was a few years ago. Let’s talks together about the most productivity killer habits most of us share. I’ll discuss them from the less to the most common with my current experience. 2 […]
What is the birthdate of the last framework you’re working with? Why have you chosen it? Did you choose it? I feel more and more puzzled by the state of our industry, and how we’re used to deal with the fact that we suck at building software. I think a […]
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 have no doubt than many jobs are complicated, but I’m convinced that software development is also a really violent one. Mostly because it does not seem violent at all at first sight. But let’s dig a bit in our world to have a better understanding of this “geek job”. […]
In a recent article I explained why I think we should all be Domain Driven.I get some interesting feedbacks on the “business sucks” syndrome. Indeed in this previous article my point was to make technical teams aware of the necessity for business to change in order to constantly fit its […]
Do you know the “I talk about it so often that I believe I already wrote a blog post about it” effect? It happens when you talk about something so often that you are sure to have a blog post somewhere to explain it more deeply 😉 It happens to […]
You know this feeling when something that should take an hour finally take a day? That’s what happens to me when I tried to move my database from ClearDb (because it’s no longer included in the MSDN subscription). I wanted to use the free MySQL in App instance instead, and I […]
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 […]
Here is another privileged white guy who stand up to talk about diversity. Let me explain why. Google memo, Uncle Bob and the SoftwareCraftsmanship community If you didn’t follow this thread, you can have few information here. The thing to understand is that it’s a big matter. There are lots […]