Posts

• The Cost of Slow Pipelines - A Tale of Wasted Time

  Jan 28, 2025

  A real life story on how reducing time spent on building and running slow tests and pipelines will speed up...

• Keeping Software Simple to speed up Software Development

  Dec 5, 2024

  Real life analogies on how reducing complexity will speed up Software Development

• The Kanban Café - A Story of Flow

  Oct 24, 2024

  A comparison between a capacity based model (Kanban) and a push based model using an analogy to a coffee shop...

• A Story on Accidental Complexity in Software Development

  Oct 1, 2024

  A Story on Accidental Complexity in Software Development

• Maximizing Software Development Productivity: The Power of Flow and Minimizing Interruptions

  Feb 26, 2024

  Maximizing Software Development Productivity: The Power of Flow and Minimizing Interruptions

• Clean Code in Java: Writing Code that Speaks

  Dec 6, 2023

  Clean Code in Java: Writing Code that Speaks

• Clean Code in Java: A concise guide

  Dec 6, 2023

• Understanding Value Objects in Java: A Brief Guide

  Dec 5, 2023

• Must Have on Message Payload

  Aug 6, 2023

  Must have on each message published inside a domain

• Centralised Management System For Message Schemas

  Aug 5, 2023

  A presentation on what is a Centralised Management System for Message Schema Management and how to setup one.

• Consuming RabbitMQ Messages with Clojure: A Step-by-Step Tutorial with Tests

  Aug 4, 2023

• Running a Spring Boot service with kubernetes

  Jan 15, 2023

  A presentation on running a Spring Boot web service on kubernetes, with command line instructions on how to run the...

• Hosting a PWA with Jekyll and Github pages

  Dec 1, 2022

  Progressive Web App hosted on Github pages and generatd by Jekyll

• Global Day of Code Retreat

  Nov 10, 2022

  A presentation with content used for hosting an event like Global Day of Code Retreat

• Facilitating a mini Code Retreat

  Nov 3, 2022

  A short description on facilitating an event like the Global Day of Code Retreat

• The Curse of Optional

  Oct 15, 2022

  A presentation on Java's Optional, how and when to use it and some common anti-patterns

• Testing Spring Boot Microservices - Presentation

  Sep 20, 2022

  An introduction on how to test a microservices built with Spring Boot and using a classical layered architecture

• TDD Workshop

  Mar 25, 2022

  Test Driven Development (TDD) workshop with introduction to TDD and practical exercise

• Value Objects in Java

  Feb 2, 2022

  Value Objects in Java - what they are and why are they useful

• Efficient Java

  Feb 1, 2022

  A few techniques to writing more efficient Java code, from immutability, to value objects, to the builder pattern

• Spring Boot testing - Focus on your changes

  Jan 31, 2022

  When writing new code you should focus your testing on the changes that you made and not on testing frameworks...

• Product users - Personas

  Jan 1, 2022

  Example of a user persona that should be used when developing a new product.

• Write code fit for testing

  Dec 15, 2021

  Write better code that's easier to test

• Running a Spring Boot app with kubernetes

  Nov 20, 2020

  Running a containerized Spring Boot app in kubernetes

• Setup GPG on Mac and sign git repositories

  Sep 10, 2019

• Running a Clojure Pedestal application on Raspberry Pi model B revision 2

  Jul 15, 2019

• Clojure from zero to hero (part 3) - First endpoint

  Jul 8, 2019

• Clojure from zero to hero (part 2) - A bit of syntax

  Jul 1, 2019

• Clojure from zero to hero (1) - explaining project.clj

  Jun 25, 2019

• Clojure from zero to hero (0) - creating a Pedestal app

  Jun 18, 2019

• Introduction to Docker

  Nov 27, 2017

  A primer on Docker - what it is and a quick overview on how to use it

• Git micro commits

  Apr 12, 2015

• Google Glass Development - setup tools, environment and turn on debugging on Glass

  Jul 9, 2014

• How To: Get the rendered HTML of a webpage with Python

  Jun 7, 2013

• Set union of two lists in Python

  Jun 4, 2013