Working Software Conference 2023
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Last Friday I attended the 2023 Working Software Conference in Milan. The Working Software Conference is an event organised by the Italian Agile Movement, focused on the second principle of the agile manifesto:
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Book Summary: A Philosophy of Software Design
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Today I’ll post a summary of a book I read at the beginning of 2023, titled “A Philosophy of Software Design”, by John Ousterhout. John is a professor at Stanford, where he teaches “Operating System Principles” and “Software Design Studio”.
In the book he distills a career worth of advice, taken from his personal experience and the issues and solutions emerged while teaching his software design course.
The Power of Code Katas: Katurday @ XPUGBg
Hi 👋 welcome to a new post. Today, I’m going to describe my experiences at the “Katurday” sessions held by the XPUG Bergamo group.
The events are called Katurday because we perform a kata on one Saturday morning every month. It’s a great way to code and learn with other people 😃.
What is a kata?
![Typical developer performing a kata Typical developer performing a kata](/blog/katurday/kata_dwight_hu17042561187187790155.jpg)
XPUGBg March Meetup: “The Actor Model (and why an XP programmer should know it)“
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This post is a short summary (with personal notes and opinions here and there) of the XPUGBg (Bergamo’s eXtreme Programming User Group) meetup I attended in March.
Actually, it’s just a bunch of notes and ideas connected together by my imagination and opinions 😂 (as I already did here and here).
This month’s talk was titled “The Actor Model and why an XP programmer should know it” by Emanuele DelBono.
Book Summary: Atomic Habits
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Today I’m publishing the (raw) notes I took while reading “Atomic Habits: An Easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones”, by James Clear.
Even though I read this book two years ago, I stumbled across this notes and they were helpful in remembering its main ideas and concepts. I know there are many summaries and reviews of this book. Still, I’ll keep this notes on the blog as a personal learning reference.
My Experience at FOSDEM 2023
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Today I just want to share some comments about my trip to FOSDEM 2023. This blog is starting to look like a travel blog for meetups and conferences 😅… I promise I’ll post some programming (practical and not) content soon.
As I already said in my 2022 review, one of my goals for 2023 is to attend more conferences and participate more in communities. I must say, I started the year in the right way 🤩.