Software Development

What Really Happened with Vista

I generally have posted about things that I have been directly involved with — either code I wrote or projects I managed. In this post I am taking a different tack to write about my perspective on the underlying causes of the Windows Vista (codename Longhorn) debacle. While…

Working with Facebook using Devise, Omniauth, Koala and Rails 5

Saving the 🐟 with 🐰 : how we used WebGL and Pixi.js for temporal mapping

Are Mutable References Fast?

I was profiling a simple loop (years ago). It was similar to:

countForever ref = forever $ modifyIORef' ref (+1)

I counted four assembly instructions.

Addition takes ~300 picoseconds, but there is…

You will be surprised by the custom event in Vue js

Continuous Delivery and What the Heck Happened to QA?

How to Train Your Microservices

DreamWorks Animation takes filmmaking to the cloud

Chain validation with Form Requests — Laravel

Today I had an interesting validation case at work. I have a Custom Validation…

You Do Not Need User Stories

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Domain Driven Design (DDD) — A Technical Perspective On Software Platform Strategy

Apache Spark Driver OOM

Has your Spark job died with something like this in your driver error log?

Checklist for new graduates looking for a career in software development

From time to time, I hear a common complaint from new graduates and internship candidates:

“You are recruiting experienced profiles most of the time; if you don’t hire us, how can…

Happy Camping with FileMaker Pro

Interactive Maps & Scheduling Grids Turn Campground & Canoe…

Working around TURN bugs

Chrome 58 contains a bug which makes TURN/TCP and TURN/TLS almost unusable. Here is how to work around it and how to measure the impact.

PMs: Say “I Don’t Know” More Often!

As PMs, we’re programmed to have an answer for every question.

The ultimate ways to supercharge your software developers’ productivity — Work smarter, not harder

This is not the place for “have you tried to turn it on and off again?”. We cannot restart a human being. A fruitful and motivated developer needs an investment…

I went back to manual labour for a week — Here’s what I learned.

I took a week off from being a software engineer and went back to the building site.

Augmented Reality using Tango

Virtual Object Placement and Real World Object Occlusion

Developers and QA testers: The enemy of my enemy is my friend

Faster page load using lightweight CSS and SVG animation (without JavaScript)

Navigating the waters of Quality Assurance

This is my third week of working as a software quality assurance engineering intern…

5 Ways to Get Ready for Your Summer Coding Bootcamp

A very deceiving warning message!

Felt deceived by this warning message when compile in Android Studio. Not seeing this warning…

Golden Rules of Software Development

I have an intern this summer working with me. It’s an interesting experience for me, since I am a self-taught developer and only really see myself as a professional insofar as I get paid for it. That said, I was thinking last night about what I could teach my…

The curse of software

Every IT consulting company I ran into had this thing in its sales pitch. Seems like that single characteristic is common to all of them. We are aware of the fact that sales have to sell, but it makes me wonder nonetheless. Is their biggest selling point the root cause of their biggest…

How to Choose The Right CMS Platform: The Definitive Guide

Why companies should give bootcamp grads a deeper look.

“Sorry, but we want people with a bachelor’s in computer science.” is a phrase many coding bootcamp graduates hear and cringe. Companies are likely turn the bootcamp against them and don’t give the grads the time of day, which in my…

See you at TechCrunch Justice on Tuesday 6/6!

Next Tuesday, June 6th, Dev Bootcamp will host a panel at TechCrunch Justice…

No One Likes Getting Up At 3 AM To Fix Bugs, Or How To Be a Better Developer

Avoid Payday Advances if you can

As I’ve travelled through my career in software I’ve been through several moments that needed a…

Blockchain and the Big-Banks — #2

We discuss Blockchain, Bitcoin, capitalism and Big-Banks in our interview with the Business…

6 Things I learned from being a part of a startup

The Digital Urgency

Your company is a tech company, whether you like it or not.

In depth Guide for Manual Testing

Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, rightly stated by William A. Foster.

6 Common Steel Defects Encountered During Quality Assurance

May 2, 2017

The world runs on steel. As a key element in transportation, construction, appliances, and many types of infrastructure, we all rely on steel’s strength and security under pressure. That’s…

WannaCry Cyberttack: Why Did This Happen ?

« Cyberattacks are exploitations of defects in software. Therefore, a defect-free…

Day 71 Styling React Native

Styling

5 Organizational Barriers to IoT Product Development

Aaron Perillat | May 31, 2017

Many companies are interested in integrating connected technologies into their physical products. In fact, an estimated $6 trillion will be spent on Internet of Things (IoT) solutions…

Do DevOps

Quality and speed can co-exist!

How npm connect people culturally around the globe

May 30, 2017. It was an ordinary day for most of the people in the world. Laurie Voss, who is the Co-founder and COO of npmjs, spot something would be very interesting in npm usage.

On Style Conventions

I won’t dance around the truth, a lot of engineers who haven’t worked with me don’t like my style.

WWDC is around the corner, the world has big expectations. I’m just looking for hope

On giving a second chance.

There is a single most underestimated smart move in the world of enterprise software. You don’t like your…

Developing software as if you are shaping ideas on clay

You’re not a robot!

We’re human beings. We do mistakes, we innovate and find other ways to do things. If we don’t then we’re losing hell a lot.

Working on a software services company is tricky. You have a customer to please but you’re not a robot to do whatever they say. I know I’m…

Xamarin Dev Days in Santo Domingo

Explore mobile development with sessions from Xamarin, our…

My 2 cents on TDD

I was wondering if I should post or not my thoughts around TDD. TDD always was and I think it will always be a polemic subject. From time to time someone published something and the never-ending-debating come up again.

Once upon a time…

…there was a girl.

She was born in a sheer corporate culture…born as an employee certainly. That culture included all that a typical corporate culture shall include: 9AM — 6PM working days, lots of extra hours (mostly unpaid), many stress situations, strict deadlines…