These are my notes on a presentation and round table discussion held by Tim Ottinger at SoCraTes UK 2023.
Tim Ottinger contributed to the book “Clean Code” book, published in 2008. Now, 15 years later he wants to revisit it and give the term “readability” a new definition:
My notes from MenderCon 2021, an open space conference on modernizing and improving existing codebases.
“The Legacy of SoCraTes” is a virtual conference with talks on testing and legacy code. You can find all the talks of the 3rd edition in the YouTube playlist for the conference.
This article is a summary of some talks.
2019 was the first year I have participated in the Advent of Code challenges, encouraged by my colleague Jan. I wanted to make it an opportunity to learn new programming languages and focus on functional programming. I started with Racket, tried out Elixir and re-wrote the challenges that involved the “intcode computer” in Scala. This post is a review of the programming languages and the event itself.
My notes from some of the sessions I attended.
My notes from some of the sessions I attended, from hallway conversations and the schedule.
Here are my notes from some of the sessions I attended.
I attended the SoCraTes Day Berlin and came back inspired and full of ideas I want to share with the world. Lean Coffee We discussed estimations (Complexity vs time, who needs them, when are they helping) and I learned about the method of “Magic estimation”. Someone mentioned “Scripts to rule them all”, an attempt to establish a common set of scripts in each project that do certain project tasks like bootstrapping, resetting, updating, running the CI validation, etc.
I attended SoCraTes 2017 in Soltau. SoCraTes is an “Unconference”, where the participants set their own agenda and come up with topics for their sessions. Sessions can be presentations, workshops and open discussions. Here are the notes from some of the sessions I attended: Programming Exercise: Banishing State The example of this exercise was taken from a real-life project: A book indexing service that takes keyword/page number pairs as input and outputs either the page number, a range of page numbers or nothing, depending on previous inputs.
I attended the SwanseaCon 2016, a conference about Agile Development & Software Craftsmanship. I enjoyed most of the talks and took some notes for the most interesting stuff: My two favorite talks Immutable architecture “Your servers are not your pets” - don’t give them names, don’t tend to them with complex state-based configuration management software like Puppet and Chef, don’t get emotionally attached. Just build the environment you need using simple tools like Ansible, deploy the code to it, put it behind your load balancer and throw the old one away.