Mark Pearl

January, 2017

Software Architecture for Developers Volume 1 by Simon Brown

In this book Simon Brown goes through the mindset of software architecture. I found the book to have pragmatic agile view of software architecture. Simon’s main argument is that software architecture is still important and that teams that do too much or too little software architecture put themselves in a...

December, 2016

Seeing Spaces

These notes are based on Bret Victor’s talk on “Seeing Spaces” done at EG 2014 in May 2014.

Feature Toggles

Issues / Questions we have had with Feature Toggles

Remote Procedural Call Notes

RPC in the Microsoft space is largely targeted toward c++. Support for languages like C# while possible are apparently painful. Alternative approaches that are simpler include:

Dev Lead Notes

People are depend on you–for direction, for validation, for encouragement.

tmux notes

Config file locations

Custodianship of code repositories

We are beginning to experience the new Custodianship model first hand, and I think we can lead the way in this to help other teams be successful in this approach too. Here are some ideas/thoughts I have had. .. Custodians will naturally be biased towards their way of doing things,...

Architecture Videos to Watch

I thought it would be a good idea to put a collection of media for people interetested in software architecture. Here it goes…

ShortcutFoo Challenge

Learning the keyboard shortcuts for your IDE of choice is useful for navigating code at speed. Shortcut Foo is a great online tool for learning shortcuts.

November, 2016

The post mob retrospective

For a teams new to mob programming, the post mob retrospective is really important. This is where everyone who participated in mobbing get’s to share how they found it and put forward suggestions on what to change next time.

How big should your first mob be?

How big should your first mob be? Unfortunately there is no one right size mob - mobs are made up of people, dfferent people bring different things to the mob.

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