Practicing and teaching Test Driven Development (TDD) since many years now, I start to see where the point of acceptation of this practice is: when you accept that the problem is not the method, but the way you are coding, and that this method is just a revealer of bad […]
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 […]
It is commonly said in IT, at least in Agile circles, that we can’t design software like we design building, using Waterfall approach. Then we often said, including myself, that even if it works with the design of building, software really is a different beast. But have we asked ourselves how well […]
After a decade of coding, I tend to believe that being able to discover and implement correctly bounded context is one of the main values I can bring to a company in my daily job. As a consultant I have the chance to do it in different gigs since a […]
In 2014 I had the chance to join a workshop on Event Storming by Alberto Brandolini at BuildStuff. After that I started to practice it intensively at work and was quickly convinced that it was a very interesting asset to do my job. Indeed, as a consultant I meet many […]
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 […]
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 […]
Do you know a job hard to explain, hard to do and usually underestimate? Of course, I’m talking about the job of designer 😊What do I know about it? Almost nothing, like anybody after reading a book. This book is the bible in this area: the design of everyday things, […]
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 […]