Every profession has its own jargon. It helps convey ideas to fellow professionals quicker. Some terms are more important than others, because they encapsulate a whole solution with a single expression. The software world is no different. We have plenty of terms we use on a daily basis to convey software (or hardware) ideas. TermsContinue reading “A Lazy Singleton”
Category Archives: Programming
Don’t Be a Slave to Jira
If you’re a developer, you’ve probably come across Jira. If you’re working with Jira right now, you probably know the pain. You pick up a task. You move its ticket into “In Progress”. You raise a pull request (PR). You move the ticket to “Code Review”. Your PR is merged. You move the ticket toContinue reading “Don’t Be a Slave to Jira”
Size Matters
Size matters. Especially when we’re talking about software. Quite simply, smaller is better. In some cases, size comes at a cost. We call this a lossy compression. JPEG is such an example. The smaller your JPEG, the lower its quality. There is no way to recover the original data. It is lost. The loss mayContinue reading “Size Matters”
Clean Your Code!
You may have heard of Uncle Bob. If you have not, now is as good a time as any. Robert C. Martin, known as Uncle Bob, is the author of quite a few canon books. The one I want to focus on in this post is Clean Code. Out of all of Uncle Bob’s booksContinue reading “Clean Your Code!”
Small and Mighty
Get a Raspberry PI now, figure out what to do with it later.
Clean the Lint Out
Automate lining in your project.
Out of the Darkness Comes Light
Here’s how to dim your Windows laptop screen automatically to save battery.
Away With the Boilerplate!
TestIt is a unit test boilerplate generator for Kotlin.
