by Ruben Hamers | Jun 21, 2025 | Modern Software Engineering
#begin The next chapter dives a bit deeper into these fundamental principles of engineering. The fun fact is that for each type of engineering these fundamentals might be a bit different. So what might they be for SE? Well first of all; Technology and Software is an...
by Ruben Hamers | May 24, 2025 | Modern Software Engineering
#begin So what is engineering? We all know that software developers like to borrow analogies and metaphors from other fields like: software architecture being borrowed from civil engineering. It’s often difficult to explain what the engineering part of SE means...
by Ruben Hamers | Apr 29, 2025 | Modern Software Engineering
#begin David provides us with his definition of Software Engineering (SE) in this chapter: Software engineering is the application of an empirical, scientific approach to finding efficient, economic solutions to practical problems in software. When I read this it...
by Ruben Hamers | Apr 17, 2025 | Unity3D
#begin Unity Project Review As the single reader of this blog other than myself might know, I’m using Unity3D extensively in my career and at my current job.We are so called ‘enterprise partner’ with Unity which comes with a number of perks...
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...
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