Quote: At first I wrote flexible code. I figured that because I couldn’t predict the future, I better leave all the options open. The code was modularized, well-factored, with a lot of bells and whistles, and more than enough documentation. I was proud of it, until I learned that: Things changed so rapidly that even …
We need to invent a word: ?: (n) The goal that you aim for, not because you expect to hit it, but because aiming for it points you in the right direction. Julian Browne in The Death of Architecture accepts that while an Enterprise Architecture will never be achieved, it can direct our efforts: “Great …
Why learn functional programming? For better design skills! The other day we designed a process to match cleared deposits with dispensations. This is how I would have white-boarded it a few years ago: Since then I’ve played around with functional programming. It encourages one to think about processing in terms of data streams: data comes …
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