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It’s been less than a year since I joined 10Pines, and a little more than two since I started working officialy as a programmer. I don’t like calling myself a junior developer because seniorities can be easily misused, as their meanings depend on what the person using these terms is looking for in a programmer and the context where they work at. What I can assure you is that I feel like a newbie developer. Maybe it’s all in my head, since my fellow team members treat me as an equal at all times, but sometimes the lack of experience in some scenarios just gets me as frustrated as a kid learning to ride a bike. To fight this, I have gathered a couple of life-savers that help me keep on track when I’m about to call it quits.
13 Sep 2016 #learning #best practices
I believe that most of us are familiar with the concept of “Test Pyramid”, a simple heuristic originally described by Mike Cohn, that is that a project should aim to have a larger number of unit tests than end-to-end tests. But after working on a project suffering from an inverted pyramid, I think it’s worth mentioning some of the downsides that relying solely on end-to-end tests might have.
26 Jul 2016
Note: acknowledgements (and thanks!) to Máximo Prieto (our OOP guru) who had this idea and he implemented it on Smalltalk.
We want to have a collection that filters its elements as we add them using a given condition. For instance, we can
have an Array that only allows even numbers.
First, and important, is to understand what a filter is. “filter” is a very overloaded word, and sometimes used in a technical way. Let’s say that a filter is someone with the single responsibility of deciding if something has to pass over or not.
14 Jul 2016
#How to create a great palette for your app/web
You may have never paid close attention to the colors you pick for your web or app, but having a good palette helps organizinge information in your site.The idea behind this post is not to give an introduction to color theory but to offer a simple guide to help you create an harmonious and useful palette.
11 Jul 2016
Finally you decided that git is more suitable than svn for your work. But, what happens when you have projects that where using svn for a while? All of that information represented in thousand of svn revisions is something that normally you don’t want to lose. For these cases I wrote this step by step guide to successfully migrate all the history stored in svn on a git repository, included all branches and tags no matter svn repository size. The only drawback is, more revisions you have more time you need to wait to get migration finished.
24 Feb 2016
“Facebook is as much sociology and psychology as it is technology” - Mark Zuckerberg
In my previous article, Unitary vs Integral Understanding, I delved into how we understand a part of a system in terms of how it relates to the rest of the system. To recap, Unitary Understanding is understanding the part by itself, abstracting the rest of the system, e.g. “i = i + 1” understood as a unit means nothing more than “increment i by one”. Integral Understanding would require us to see how that sentences interacts witht the rest of the code, so for example that sentence could “move a loop forward”.
“How”, “What”, “Why” are three questions that are also helpful to see different facets of a system. A lot of what follows in this article might seem obvious to seasoned developers, but in my experience, these dimensions, because they’re intuitive, are often not adecuately explained to junior developers.
17 Feb 2016
A week ago I had an interview with a potential new client who owns a startup company that is related to sports activities.
11 Feb 2016
Mocking objects is a common practice when writing tests, however it can be painful when refactoring a class tested with mocks. I will show a simple example to explain the problems that mocking can generate, but first I would like to give some definitions:
14 Jan 2016
This post will try and maybe fail to convince you that using null in your code is an error.
For those of you willing to listen, here are my reasons to stop using it.
4 Jan 2016
Have you ever heard about the Rails way? I would like to introduce some pains that I’ve seen and keep seeing in all the Rails projects due to the Rails way…
25 Nov 2015