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Thank you Tumblr for hosting my little blog for almost 8 years without any trouble (and costs).

Anyway, I moved away and now run my blog using Jekyll; distributed through a Docker-image running on an Amazon EC2 instance.

Thanks again, and see you at The Craftman's Blog

A series of videos from the YouTube channel "Getting Real" with some interesting insights to "How Basecamp gets work done."

Watch Ryan Singer presenting.

How We Work #1 Expect to be done

How We Work #2 Some Version

How We Work #3 Deliberate Allocation

How We Work #4 Knowns vs. Unknowns

Tower changed their pricing model 😢

Before it was a one-time payment for bigger improvements and in years I remember about one or two of such updates. But now, I should pay on a subscription base :-(. Sorry, but then, I will use on github and locally through the console.

Home office in da sun, what could be a better place to work.

Inspired by Kat Tornwall's talk about integration tests with Elixir and Phoenix I did some clean up in my integration tests of my current Elixir project. Look how much more readable they are now.

Page modules for navigation

Instead of using all this navigation stuff like

find_element(:id, "get-state-button") |> click()

I can simply write StartPage.click_check_backend() now.

Customized assertions

Using assert Regex.match?(...) inlined will end up in assert messages like expected true but was false which is really annoying and won't tell me the real error. So, I wrote a macro, thus I can use assert_regex(expected,text) which will tell me exactely what was searched for but not found in which text.

The test above is so much more readable now, isn't it.

And the effort wasn't a big deal. Here is what I had to extract into helpers.

StartPage Helper

“Visual Studio is one of the single largest pieces of software in the world,” he (Chris Granger, a software developer who worked as a lead at Microsoft on Visual Studio) said. “It’s over 55 million lines of code. And one of the things that I found out in this study is more than 98 percent of it is completely irrelevant. All this work had been put into this thing, but it missed the fundamental problems that people faced.

The Coming Software Apocalypse

The best read this week was from James Somers, fisrt published in "The Atlantic" and available at Medium. (Read the article at Medium)

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Pretty well done explanation of DDD

I'm about to start my new Elixir project on the green field, so I thought it would be a good idea to watch and read some stuff about architecture and design especially for Elixir/Erlang. And so, I stumbled over this, may be one of the best explanation of DDD, not only for Elixir. Watch it!

Thank you Andrew

Why Elixir?

Yesterday (2018-03-20) I attended a seminar on regulations in medical software. It gave me heebie-jeebies because it's obvious that Uncle Bob's fears seem to become true: law and government will tell us how to do our profession. And gosh, what they are telling us is to go back 10 years. We should not be that passionate programmer and we should swap the two sides of the Agile Manifesto again. The right side really matters much more for them ;-(

This week I did attend the kickoff meeting of Work'n'Life (like in Rock'n'Roll) at Factory 300 in Linz. The place (Tabakfabrik Linz) is gorgeous and the talks were impressive and very informative.

The context of this meetup group is about the life-balance in a modern world and the challenges companies (small to enterprise) will face within the next years to find, enjoy, and keep their employees.

The piles in this context are: Purpose/Storytelling // Productivity // Restructuring Organisations // Lifelong Learning & Growth // Wellbeing // "Mind the gap" (gender, age, ...) // and Space.

In 2012 I started a Google+ Community, named “Clean Coders” with the purpose to share stuff and insights about this topic with friends (IRL).

Since 2015, I stumbled around in enterprises and had no time to keep this channel alive. But now I’ll give it a second chance.

The rule to join is, you have to be known in real life by at least one of the existing members.

We, as software developers, will face more and more regulatory demands. Business, government, laws will tell us how to do our work.

Did we fail to produce proper craft?

Obviously, because I find more and more posts like this...