To write reproducible and isolated tests, we need two things : Isolate global mutable state to the same scope as the test. Either the state can be scoped to the test or the test needs to isolate that global state. Control the inputs and outputs of a...
It takes one person to change a lightbulb. Maybe a second person to hold the ladder. Any more people assigned to the job will slow it down. Go slow Assigning too many people to a project is a pernicious way of slowing it down. The number of people on...
It's the second time we get into this situation. It always begins the same. Someone says : "We'll do authentication after proving the design". Then a few months into the project, it's time to implement authentication. It takes a few weeks to sync all...
Anything I work on is either natively in the cloud like design documents and emails or it has a common distributed backup strategy with a few hundreds of replicas. I mean git repositories... Everything else is transient on this machine, from unpubli...
This is an old post from August 9th, 2010 I recently had to build an optimized Sudoku puzzle solver for a homework which turned into a contest between students. I was part of a team of three and we competed again six similar teams… And we won! Here, ...
Twelve years ago, I figured I'd build a technical blog and write about projects and ideas. I already did some development consulting and I wanted to leave an anchor. Here I am. I'm on the web. I exist. Hello world! The main blogging platform even bac...
