“It’s not until you realize most people are alike in this way that you can start to have more productive learning conversations – even with folks you strongly disagree with.” – Phil Haack This has been a topic that I have been meaning to write about for quite some time now. But recently I read […]
Read more "The Learning Conversation"C# developers, you may not realise how similar many of the language’s features are to those in the next version of JavaScript. The next version of JavaScript, version 6, has many syntactic feature changes that have been inspired by their equivalents in C#. Lately I’ve been covering a lot of the cultural aspects of a […]
Read more "JavaScript 6 for the C# Developer: Mini Series – Part 1: How do I iterate?"Recently I tweeted the sentence “In Software Engineering there are no problems, only opportunities, opportunities to learn” over on my twitter account. Of course this may have already been said by numerous people in the past, but perhaps not in the context of software engineering, not to my knowledge anyway, so for now I will […]
Read more "In Software Engineering there are no problems, only opportunities, opportunities to learn"We as an industry are inherently lazy. We tend to step back and read up on what are the “best” ways of implementing design or development. This is the safest thing to do and in some cases in some environments this is the only thing you can do, because if you don’t follow the best […]
Read more "Stop Following Best Practices!"Part VI – What happens if we don’t have Tests This results in what’s known as Technical Debt. But it’s only technical debt, if the business is aware of it and it is an actionable task whereby we know that at some future stage we can pay back this technical debt by fixing the known […]
Read more "Achieving Software Testing Nirvana in a CI/CD environment with a sprinkling of Agile – Part VI"Part V – Release Stage Blue-Green Deployments Blue green deployments are used when we want to swap one environment by pointing the load balancer to another environment such as the staging environment. The staging environment could be the green environment, when doing a release, once all has been given the OK, the load balancer can […]
Read more "Achieving Software Testing Nirvana in a CI/CD environment with a sprinkling of Agile – Part V"Part IV – Automated Testing The Commit Stage What is the Commit Stage? The commit stage is the time when a developer is happy with their production ready code and is ready to commit to their version control system. Some pre-requisites to a commit should be that the developer has confidence in the code […]
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