Many software developers fail to reach their productivity not due to lack of technical ability but for lack of mental organization and discipline. It is extremely helpful to always hold in one’s mind the answer to the question: “What exactly am I trying to achieve at this particular moment?” It …
Blockchain is being hyped as never before. A series of Blockchain initiatives has been run by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), both internally and in consortia with other companies. We have learned quite a few things about what makes a good blockchain problem through these efforts. This experience report will …
This presentation shares some lessons learned in 15 Years of software development.
This video presents novel techniques that will help you make sense of large codebases. You will learn to identify the code that really matters for your ability to maintain a system, how to prioritize improvements and even evaluate your software architecture based on how you actually work with the code.
Have you ever wondered where the perception that technology and software development are a masculine pursuit comes from? Or why we have to explain that, “no really, women are interested in computers too”? At the beginning of the modern technological era, to be a computer was to be an actual …
Basic functional concepts like immutable data, second-order functions, lambdas and function composition can already be found in the modern programmer’s toolkit. During this talk you will learn about more advanced functional concepts and how they can solve real problems.
