The vertical bar screen of death ... the story of an unexpected win-win
2018-09-21 Software-Engineering Nerdy Tips & Tricks
Last year I spend some time and money to “renovate” my old 17-inch Macbook Pro (remember the good old times … when Apple was ...
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Advent of Code 2017 ... Revolutions!!!
2018-08-11 Software-Engineering Functional-Programming Advent-of-Code Scala Kotlin
Let’s talk about the Advent of Code … again!!!
Last time we talked about a/the Scala implementation.
This time around I figured that I ...
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Kotlin ... the better Java?
2018-08-11 Software-Engineering Functional-Programming Kotlin
Everybody is talking about Kotlin. Me too!!!
Obviously the question is: Is Kotlin the next better thing?
Is Kotlin going to replace Java? Is Kotlin ...
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Learn you a ... Haskell!
2018-08-11 Software-Engineering Haskell
In the last 6 month I have started to wonder.
First of all … I am convinced that using the concepts of functional programming will give you ...
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The cost of building a skateboard ... and a lot of PSs
2018-05-26 Software-Engineering Culture
The other day I was explaining again how to build an MVP and I was using the skateboard picture (again :)).
In the middle of the discussion I ...
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Advent of Code 2017 ... Reloaded!!!
2018-05-24 Software-Engineering Advent-of-Code Scala Functional-Programming
OK … it took me a while, but … hopefully it was worth it!!!
Last year at christmas I did the Advent of Code and … really liked ...
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Tenable new hire training ... and integrating sbt-release with sbt-github-release
2018-05-04 Software-Engineering Scala
The other day I was flying to the Tenable new hire training in Columbia/MD and that means … 8 hours of uninterrupted coding time!!!
At the ...
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Category Theory for Programmers ... Reviewing THE course!
2018-04-03 Software-Engineering Haskell Functional-Programming Conferences
A couple of weeks ago Angel pointed me to a very nice lecture: Category Theory for Programmers (from/by Bartosz Milewski).
Bartosz Milewski is a ...
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Assembling a Gatling (gun) ... how hard can it be?
2018-03-07 Software-Engineering Scala
Back to the roots!!!
I am writing Gatling tests (again :)). (Obviously) I used to do this (a lot :)), when I was with Gilt (for an obvious reason :)). ...
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GDSE @ edx.org (with TU Delft)
2018-01-24 Software-Engineering Management Conferences
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are massive!!!
I did my first one 7 years ago (on Cousera; Martin Odersky’s course on Functional Programming ...
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