by Ruben Hamers | Mar 19, 2025 | Modern Software Engineering
#begin During my summer vacation in 2022 I read David Farley’s book called Modern Software Engineering – Do what works to build better software faster. It was a truly amazing read but I never got the time to write an actual review for it. Now with the recent rebrand...
by Ruben Hamers | Mar 9, 2025 | Unity Pro
#begin In the last blog I’ve laid out some of the problems with Singletons in a Unity3D context. As I pointed out; I think the root cause of “Singletons, Singletons everywhere” is the fact that Unity does not provide a clear entry point to an...
by Ruben Hamers | Feb 16, 2025 | Unity Pro
#begin Unity3D is well known for its low barrier to entry. A total newby can get the infamous ‘Roll a Ball’ tutorial up and running within a few hours. All without much coding involved. Unity’s editor and component based architecture even seems to...
by Ruben Hamers | Jan 26, 2025 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin And, that’s it folks; We’ve discussed the entirety of the book called The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. Oh boy, this was a blast and really interesting. This book remains one of the best books about engineering practices I’ve read...
by Ruben Hamers | Jan 9, 2025 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Next we have arrived at the very last section of the last chapter. It’s called Pride and Prejudice. We as pragmatic programmers are proud of our work. David and Andrew say; we don’t shrink away from responsibility and instead rejoice accepting...
by Ruben Hamers | Dec 22, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Next is a section about expectations. David and Andrew mention that we should always try to go beyond expectations. I think its a common practice to “under promise and over deliver”. Be gentle in what you promise so you can make sure you can deliver and go...
by Ruben Hamers | Dec 8, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin The next big topic of this chapter is called It’s all writing. This section will dive into the many kinds of documentation we will have to write as pragmatic programmers. Andrew and David mention that we should treat english, or which ever language you or your...
by Ruben Hamers | Nov 13, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Ok; so next up is yet another section on testing. David and Andrew say that most developers hate testing. And I agree, as Uncle Bob would say, testing after the fact is really, really boring. You already know the code works because you just wrote it and tested...
by Ruben Hamers | Nov 2, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin The next section of the chapter is all about automation. Well, we talked about that before but let’s see what else Andrew and David have to say about it. They mention that automation is a way to ensure guaranteed repeatability. Well that sounds pretty...
by Ruben Hamers | Oct 24, 2024 | Pragmatic Programmer
#begin Andrew and David kick this chapter off with the idea of no broken windows. Do you remember what this was about? You don’t leave broken windows in a building because if there’s one broken window and nobody fixes it, people expect its fine and no one will...
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