Learn how to keep your system clean and what are you challenges when you need to keep a large system clean. Rebecca Wirfs-Brock explain this, making parallels with quotes from Clint Eastwood and from other renowned people from this field like Ward Cunningham or Alan Wirfs-Brock.
Is the app you’re developing supposed to be used by humans? Then you should do usability testing! User interfaces have errors just like any other part of IT systems. You test your code, but are you testing the user interface? Are you sure you’re getting the right input? Are you …
It’s said that without evil there can be no good and that without darkness, there can be no light. Is the same true of ugly and beautiful code? Maybe… but that’s certainly not a question I’ll be answering in this talk. Instead, we’ll talk about ugly code, where it comes …
Most Ruby code makes heavy use of mutable state, which often contributes to long term maintenance problems. Mutability can lead to code that’s difficult to understand, libraries and applications that aren’t thread-safe, and tests that are slow and brittle.
Larry Wall, the creator of the Perl programming, answers the question “What are the five programming languages everyone, even non-programmers, should know about and why?”.
Social Architecture by analogy with conventional architecture, is the process and the product of planning, designing and growing an on-line community. Social architectures, in the form of on-line communities, are the cultural and political symbols and works of art of the Digital Society. The 21st century will be identified with …
