Welcome back to Not So Random Software. This week’s links are dedicated to Hiring; how to navigate skills shortage landscape, reflections on what you actually need, and tools that might be helpful to get it done. A random article or paper The First Round blog publishes wisdom from the top tech companies in Silicon Valley. […]
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Not So Random Software #10 – The one about Automation
Welcome back to Not So Random Software. This week’s links are dedicated to Automation and how we can keep a healthy relationship with it. A random article or paper In an automated system two roles are left for the human operator; (a) monitoring that the automated system is working correctly, and (b) taking over control […]
Not So Random Software #9 – The one about Anger Management
Welcome back to Not So Random Software. This week’s links are dedicated to Anger and our relation to it. As Seneca pointed out many years ago we often suffer more in imagination than in reality. Our response to feelings of anger make all the difference to what happens afterwards and our happiness. A random article […]
Not So Random Software #7 – The one about Goal Setting
After last week’s reflection time, this week is about goal setting for the new year. Over the years I have found hundreds of strategies for doing this type of exercise and it’s easy to get lost; accept that it is a challenging problem to crack. For comparison, seemingly simple problems like the Traveling Salesman or […]
Not So Random Software #6 – The one about Reflection
Another year has gone by. Days, weeks and months disappear in the blink of an eye. We are busier than ever, and if you happen to live in London you know what I am talking about. We feel the pressure to deliver more and more, but we are rarely encouraged to stop and reflect on […]
Not So Random Software #5 – The one about Lazyness
It’s Christmas time, and we all get a bit lazy. Time to be with your friends and family rather than keeping up with your productivity hacks. I hope you can find a signal in the noise of these links. A random tool With Data Science use cases exploding we need tools to make data analysis […]
Not So Random Software #4 – The one about Gratefulness
With the festivity season kicking-in, I have been thinking about gratefulness. As technologists, we are one of the luckiest professionals in the world. To be grateful is an important reminder that helps us feel fulfilled, happy and helps us define our purpose — even when you are just fixing an obscure bug no one else […]
A different take on validation using the dry-validation gem
If you are using Rails and you find yourself fighting validations more often than you would like to, then you should consider watching my talk I gave at the London Ruby User Group this February about on dry-validation. I will present the API surface which uses a schema based declarative approach and I will compare […]
An Introduction to Event Sourcing for Rubyists
Event sourcing is a design pattern to build applications that are domain centric and easy to extend. The pattern is based on the usage of a persistent event log which substitutes the more classical relational database model for Rails applications. Last week I gave this presentation at the London Ruby User Group you can find […]
To raise or not to raise exceptions, and the art of designing return values
Each time we call a function that’s meant to perform some operation that could succeed or fail we are always left with the same dilemma. What should be the return value? Should I return nil if a failure happened? Or I should throw an exception? What does failure means anyway? Like every interesting question, the answer is […]