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Easy Mocking of Your Database
Test-driven development is something wonderful! Once you’ve established it in your organisation, you will start to:Greatly improve your quality (things break less often) Greatly ...
The Stigma of Tech Certifications (and their real value)
Every so often I will receive a résumé from a software engineer that includes a list of technical certifications. These days most candidates tend to have none listed, but over the ...
A Bug is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Some development teams, especially Agile teams, don’t bother tracking bugs. Instead of using a bug tracking system, when testers find a bug, they talk to the developer and get it ...
Bumping Into Manager Rules
You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a manager who has rules about problem solving. I once worked for a manager who proudly ...
How To Remove Friction From Your Version Control Experience
Last week, I spend several days fixing a bug that only surfaced in a distributed environment.I felt pressure to fix it quickly, because our continuous integration build was red, and ...
Java is dead (again)
Here is a couple of responses to this annual question I thought worth sharing: The Day Java lost the Battle There is a common myth amongst technologists that better technology will ...
CPU Cache Flushing Fallacy
Even from highly experienced technologists I often hear talk about how certain operations cause a CPU cache to ‘flush’. This seems to be illustrating a very common fallacy ...
The Reality of Developer’s Life
In this post I am going to try to illustrate in a funny way the reality of developer’s life. This post is a translation of another post written in Spanish. When ...
Breaking build is not a crime
For years I’ve been taught that breaking continuous integration build is something that should be avoided under all circumstances. Let me first quote few classics. Uncle Bob in ...
Internationalization vs Localization (i18n vs l10n)
I always had a trouble how to explain this subject to other people. That’s why I’ve decided to collect the main definitions (and explanations) of internationalization and ...
