Since 1 year I try to write more blog posts. I’m performing at least 1 pomodoro per week to write drafts. I don’t feel pressure about publishing these drafts though, sometimes I do, sometimes I throw them away, and sometimes I merge them into a single post. I think it […]
Let’s define the reality as the consequence of all previous Facts. Nobody knows every fact from the past. And when we share some facts, we don’t give them the same importance. We build our reality based on the facts we believe to know, and give them some importance based on […]
Like for dependency injection, heritage and composition are easily misundertsood. We remember that programs written in Oriented Object Programming (OOP ) are designed by making them out of objects that interact with one another. Technically, we have two possibilities to share code in an OOP style: either composition or inheritance. […]
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 […]
Working mainly on .NET legacy project since a few years, I often meet the same kind of problems. One of them is a bad usage of Inversion Of Control (IOC) Containers, or Service Locator to magically access everything everywhere in the code. Just like a giant singleton. I think these […]
“As a principle objective, we must attempt to minimize the burden of documentation, the burden neither we nor our predecessors have been able to bear successfully” “My first proposal is that each software organization must determine and proclaim that great designers* are as important to its success as great managers […]
Much focus in our industry is on how we can write code faster. We want super productive IDE, high level language and huge frameworks to protect us from the hard reality of building software. In my opinion it’s more important to find how we can write maintainable code by focusing […]
I’m happy to see that event driven architecture rises in popularity, I already explained why I believe it makes sense. But when a topic gets more traction, we hear more and more weird things. Let me try to clarify a few myths about Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) here. CQRS […]
Following an advice from Cyrille Martraire, I just finished reading On Writing Well: a non-fiction guide written 35 years ago. Reading this book helps me to realize there are lots of similarities between writing code and non-fiction. The arrogant guy “A simple style is the result of hard work and hard thinking. A muddled […]
I don’t feel comfortable when I hear people explaining how hard we should work to be “successful”. Mainly because “success” is subjective, it only makes sense in a given context. For example, Uncle Bob in The Clean Coder asserts that a professional developer must work around 60 to 70 hours per week. 40 […]