Today we live in a time where building and delivering high quality software, fast and frequent is a necessity. Having assembled teams who have done this relatively well and having worked with teams who have not managed to do this so well, I have come to appreciate certain qualities of teams that I thought I should pen down. So here we go.
They self-organise
The team can plan and get something meaningful done without needing a manager to guide them or define things for them. They understand the big picture and collaborate within the team to figure out the what and the how with productive discussion around the why. …
TL;DR they don’t.
It’s been quite a while since I adopted RxJS and fell in love with the idea of Reactive Programming. It takes time and quite a bit of practice to really get to know reactive programming and learn to appreciate it. When you start playing with RxJS one of the first things you would notice is the similarities of an Observable to a Promise. The next thing you would do is google “promise vs observable” and the internet will explain to you what the differences are quite well.
I’m baffled by the number of people I come across who think observables are a replacement for promises. I guess we have Angular to partly blame for that. Despite Angular playing an important role in the fame and adoption of RxJS, it did play a part in this misconception with its use of Observables for use-cases where Promises are more applicable. …
When you travel out of your resident country there are things that you miss quite often. One of those things that most people end up missing is the caller-id when you receive calls from your resident country. This happens mostly because people tend to save phone numbers without the country code for local numbers. This bites you back big-time when you are traveling. I recently moved to Singapore from Sri Lanka and it has been a blast, except when I get calls or WhatsApp messages.
So I wanted to convert all my Sri Lankan contact numbers that did not have a country code to have one. Usually I would use Automator on my mac to get this sort of little tasks done. But this time it was too much of a stretch for Automator to include all my nitty-gritty requirements to get the job done. Enter JXA (JavaScript for Automation), something that Apple included in Yosemite as an alternate to AppleScript. …
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