If you haven’t migrated to jUnit 5, this talk will provide most important overview. Yes, it is dated, but I still found it to be valuable.
Category: Software
Decision making in software team
I don’t remember when or how I came across this talk, but I’m sure glad I did. I believe, the talk is a good starting point if your team is struggling in a decision making area.
The Economics of software design
Recently found, quite interesting and entertaining talk. I hope it will shed some perspective on the development process.
Introduction to NoSQL
Old but quite an interesting talk
Managing Geeks
I have been in the IT industry for more than a few years now and switched a few managers (and work places). Out of all the managers this far, I only had one decent one. In general all the managers I came across seem to be fairly useless. They don’t seem to support the team and always take the most convenient position on matters – which translates to the usual see nothing, do nothing. From time to time I’ve been wondering: “what makes a management job anyways?” – because from my point of view, they don’t bring any value to the team. Perhaps in other industries or places managers are essential, but in development teams…
Today I came across a very interesting article and was somewhat surprised has been written 11 years back. After few moments my surprise turned into a few thoughts, one of which: if information on good management exists, why are there so many useless managers? Naive and rhetorical question, but I do keep asking it from time to time.
If anyone is interested in managing geeks or understanding IT mentality, please read the article and I attached PDF copy in case the article got lost.
Cheers.
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? By Martin Fowler
I don’t like using term “fan”, however I do read Martin Fowler’s posts and tend to agree with him a lot. His recent post brought feeling of familiarity and a bit of pain. I would like to share it with anyone who is doing software development.
I hope you will find it useful.
N26 coding exercise
A while back, I worked on N26 coding exercise and found the problem quite entertaining. Figured to share it:
Correct, with minor test comments (should not use Thread.sleep(…)) and not entirely efficient but clean and 100% test driven solution can be found here and backup: here.
I think this exercise worth while, do it just for fun and giggles :)
10 Tips for failing badly at Microservices by David Schmitz
Recently I came across this awesome video – dark humor, reverse psychology and sarcasm – grab a beer and have a laugh.
TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong
Recently I came a cross “TDD, where did it all go wrong” presentation. In my humble opinion it is worth watching if you have any interest in Test Driven Development. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM
Old is New New
I recently finished watching quite interesting and thought provoking video about software development and history. I hope you will find it interesting as well.