2016-01-16 00:00
Why the Ultimate Developer Keyboard?
Health is important
I have been programming for over a decade now. As I’ve become a more experienced programmer, I have found that there has been… Read More
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2016-01-12 00:00
What is CodeWars?
CodeWars is a site aimed at providing community driven programming kata’s that help teach various techniques in solving programming problems by providing you with a… Read More
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Why have conferences
As software developers we are attracted to learning. We love staying up to date with the latest technologies. We love understanding things deeply. There are many ways t… Read More
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The Golden Master is one of the approaches I use to make my life easier when refactoring legacy code. Today I would like to share the approach with you.
What is Legacy Code?
There are many… Read More
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This post is a transcript of a talk done at Agile Africa 2015.
Introduction
When I had my thirteenth birthday, my parents bought me an awesome gift, they bought me a skateboard. Now, this… Read More
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I first read this on J. B. Rainsberger’s blog, and I have found it so useful I feel I need to re-iterate it here.
As Joe explains, laziness or ignorance push us towards the left end… Read More
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The Team
To understand the context of this post, you need some background on the team and the people in the team.
The team consists of 10 multi-skilled people who are able to handle all as… Read More
2015-05-16 00:00
I recently read Jessica Kerr’s blog post on the quality wheel. In general, I loved her idea of being able to use it to further refine specific aspects of quality software systems. One… Read More
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Over the last three weeks it appears that I have developed either ‘carpal tunnel syndrome’ or somthing similar. It began with occaisonal numbness in one or two of my fingers on m… Read More
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Over the last few years we’ve had an experiment going - each year over our ‘quiet’ month we would take a handful of students from Varsity and give them ‘work’ e… Read More
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Goal
Move an instance method from one class to another.
Scenario
You have a class with an instance method, you’ve identified that this method fits better in another class and you wa… Read More
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An introduction to the art
I have just spent 3 days of my life refactoring a section of code with a good friend of mine, Janco. One of the most significant things I discovered during these… Read More
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Where did Scrumagalo come from?
In South Africa we have a language called Fanagalo. Fanagalo was a simplified language based on Zulu, English & Afrikaans. It gave a bunch of people from… Read More
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What Software Developers Do
I recently had a discussion where the comment was made that a group of software developers didn’t have time to do any real work because they were busy in a… Read More
2015-03-04 00:00
I am a fan of code retreats. There is so much to get from them, from the different pairings to the different constraints on each session. Today we did a slight twist on the normal coderetrea… Read More
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Deffered Maintenace
Eskom & Load Shedding
In recent weeks South Africans have become all to familiar with the concept of load shedding - a process whereby the national electricity prov… Read More
2015-02-17 00:00
I’ve recently identified a pattern used for most of corporate South Africa’s software development. I call it the Dev Manager Obfuscation Layer Pattern.
When is it applied?
When… Read More
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I have been presenting at local conferences for a few years. At the end of last year I decided to make it a goal for this year to present at an overseas conference. With no experience on how… Read More
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For those that know me - I have spoken at a few conferences. Below are a collection of tools I use for discovering conferences and opportunitites to speak.
Call to Speakers ListLanyrd Read More
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Something I have come to learn in developing software is that business has an unquenchable thirst for new features.
This thirst has resulted in mounting pressures on development teams to de… Read More
2015-01-01 00:00
I occaisonally get asked where a lot of the concepts I have embraced in software development come from. For those that are serious about getting a deeper understanding of the process of soft… Read More
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