How do you know your software is correct? When you dig deep into that question, it turns out there’s no easy answer. There may be no answer whatsoever. This question parallels one of the most fundamental questions in philosophy: “How do I know a proposition is true?” This question is …
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Functional Programming (FP) have a lot of good things in common: DDD has borrowed many ideas from the FP community, and both share a common inspiration on established formalisms like maths. For the software developer, the result is a style of code that mixes the best …
Many designers and developers don’t realize that, even if they have no interest in doing server side JavaScript development, NodeJS offers a wide array of useful command line tools that they can integrate to improve their development workflow.
We know we’re supposed to break code up into coherent parts, but many codebases just don’t seem to get it right. To add some simple feature, we have to tear things apart or, worse, patch and work around the existing code. In a better system, it would just take a …
Users expect a fast and optimized experience regardless of whether they’re on a mobile or desktop browser. However, delivering a fast mobile experience requires careful consideration and engineering: you need to optimize your network access, you need to prioritize critical assets to deliver the best visual rendering performance, and you …
The Forward Internet Group in London implemented the original Programmer Anarchy process. Detractors point out that Anarchy would not work in a traditional organization with its established processes and roles. In the second implementation of Programmer Anarchy, the detractors seem to be wrong.
