It recently dawned on me how often I say or hear the words “our industry is young”. There’s truth in these words. Architecture, medicine, craftsmanship, engineering – they all started thousands of years ago. They had time to make mistakes, to learn from those mistakes, to come together as a profession and define it, to build tools and practices and to improve upon them, to...
There’s nothing to read here for you. Really, nothing at all. You are a perfect programmer. Your code is the best you’ve ever seen. We all bow to your wisdom and awesomeness. There’s nothing more for you to learn. There’s nothing left to practice. There’s nothing left to read, no conference that can teach you things, no community that can advance your skills...
I wasn’t born a good speaker. I didn’t even start public speaking until very late. And the beginning was rough. My first attempts at public speaking were very scary experiences. I literally couldn’t speak for the first 5 minutes. Luckily, Maria had a trick upon her sleeve: she would pair speak with me and always go first. This way, my panic vanished and I could start babbling...
I’m very interested in applying general design principles to software design. I am convinced that software design is just design applied to a specific material: code. Since design as a discipline is thousands of years old (the pyramids were designed) while software as we know it today is only a few decades old, I find it obvious that there’s a lot to learn from it. Part of my...
There are many ways to look at programming. Some people do it to make a living. Others want to see things working fast and hack it away. Others believe in building a profession from programming and thus seek practices and submit themselves to challenges that expand their views. It’s very easy to pass judgement on some of these attitudes. I will not do that. People need to live, to support...