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 “Kata” is a term borrowed from martial arts. It refers to “a detailed choreographed pattern of movements made to be practiced alone, but can also be reviewed within groups and in unison when training” (Wikipedia).
XPUGBg March Meetup: “The Actor Model (and why an XP programmer should know it)“
Hi 👋 welcome! 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
Hi 👋 and welcome to a new post! 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.