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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 realized ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 same ... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 :)). ... Read More
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 ... Read More