by Ruben Hamers | Jul 16, 2021 | Reviews
#begin Next I want to discuss the chapter about testing (chapter 12). I’m a fan of applying TDD where it makes sense and adds value. This chapter is not about TDD but it is still very interesting to read how they viewed testing and made it a core activity within...
by Ruben Hamers | Jul 13, 2021 | Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Reviews
#begin Juli 1th, I finally finished reading the Object-Oriented Software Engineering, A Use Case Driven Approach book. I read it front to back, although I have to admit I only read parts of the second case study: Telecom chapter, because there was another case...
by Ruben Hamers | Jun 18, 2021 | Reviews, Udemy
#begin I ‘m really on a Udemy roll here if I have to say myself. I’ve been listening to Udemy courses a lot lately and I recently finished another one by my friend Mark Farragher. This time it’s a less technical kind of course and more towards...
by Ruben Hamers | Jun 12, 2021 | Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Reviews
#begin I was finally able to continue reading my Object-Oriented Software Engineering, A Use Case Driven Approach book again. I encountered another interesting bit in the book that I wanted to write down. This time it’s something about the structure of...
by Ruben Hamers | Jun 4, 2021 | Reviews, Udemy
#begin Quite a while ago I finished this Udemy course on C# optimization tricks. At some point in this course there was a rather detailed video about the C# Garbage Collector (GC). It was such a refreshing video since, I too, took the GC for granted. I mean, I was...
by Ruben Hamers | Jun 2, 2021 | Reviews, Udemy
#begin Ever since I did some really in depth research about multi-threading, parallelism and protocol languages I was really fascinated by it. It all started when I read about how changing a 64 bit integer (long) on a 32 bit machine in a multi-threaded program could...
by Ruben Hamers | May 25, 2021 | Unity3D
#begin On March 16 this year (2021) an old colleague of mine contacted me in regard to some questions he had concerning a build and deployment pipeline I once helped set up. He had some specific questions that had to do with a stage in the pipeline where we...
by Ruben Hamers | Apr 23, 2021 | Reviews, Udemy
#begin In my last blog about Udemy I hinted that I started on another course. I finally had the opportunity to finish it and thus, here is the review of the course. I started this relatively short course on C# performance tricks since I thought it would probably yield...
by Ruben Hamers | Apr 15, 2021 | Object-Oriented Software Engineering, Reviews
#begin Last summer I was finally able to grab a copy of this book: Object-Oriented Software Engineering, A Use Case Driven Approach by Ivar Jacobson, Magnus Christerson, Patrik Jonsson and Gunnar Övergaard. Since the book is quite pricey, I had been scouring websites...
by Ruben Hamers | Mar 18, 2021 | Don't make me think, Reviews
#begin Ever since I started working at Dephion I have been doing a lot of user-interface stuff. The team I work in is also called the “front-end” team, but we are not the regular Javascript front-end developers you might expect. We are not designing any...
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