pair programming Turning cross-timezone pairing to our advantage Finding the time to pair with people from different timezones can be tough. But we've learned a way to make the best out of it and here I'll show you how!
oop Reifying problems in our software: a short story Yet another lesson from a large project with legacy code. Did you happen to see “known issues” in software that you have worked on? And how many times have you seen them “solved” with “quick fixes” or “workarounds”?
agile Heart of Agile Teams at 10Pines What's the formula to make excellent teams work the way they do? How can we extend that to the whole organization? Here I show you our own recipe at 10pines
oop Classes or Prototypes in Python What would happen if I wanted to play only with objects on Python, using other objects as prototypes? I’m going to show how we can benefit from the meta-programming tools available on Python in order to do that.
aphobaco Why "Trustparency" matters While taking a negotiation course a couple of weeks ago I got to think about how we achieved to create a trust-based company. Here are my thoughts
culture Chronicles of a pine-y journey There are some experiences that, as time goes by, continue to evoke our most sincere emotions due to how precious they were. Arriving at 10Pines, without a doubt, is one of them. This is my story.
css The not-so-sticky footer problem Haven’t you ever had that classic problem where the footer kept showing up in the middle of the screen? Here's an extremely simple solution for it using flex!
technical debt Paying off Technical Debt one step at a time Technical debt grows in any codebase. Sometimes you want to pay that debt, but due to the lack of time or new features requests from stakeholders, you can’t get your hands on it. So, how can you do it?
rails Testing Rake tasks An essay on Rake tasks, their Rails dependency, the value of testing them and, most of all, how to do it. Testing Rake tasks is essential when you need to keep your project robust and reliable all along. Let me show you how (and why) you should definitely do it.
teaching Building knowledge to give knowledge - Part 2 I've been requested to give an intensive course on a particular programming language. In this post I'll tell you the outcomes of the plan I built for it.
elixir Fluent assertions in Elixir Fluent assertions provide a live documentation of what the code actually does. Here's a small library I wrote in Elixir to make them.
teaching Building knowledge to give knowledge I've been requested to give an intensive, 5 days long course on a particular programming language directed to sysadmins. The intention of this post is to tell you about the steps and methodologies I used to build a training plan for it.
software development Where the Female Developers at? Have you noticed the difference between the amount of women and men that choose to study software development? Well, I have. And I was extremely surprised when I found out the reasons to it. If you wanna know them too, you can't miss this post.
software development The Evil Defaults Working on a project with a lot of legacy code always leaves good lessons. This time I’ll present you what I like to call “evil defaults”, pieces of code that can do a lot of harm in any software project.
frontend Virtual DOM: ReactJS implementation How does the Virtual DOM work? And what is actually the DOM? If you ever have wondered about those questions, this post is for you.
object-design Limit the Problem Space! How can we make our code less error-prone? In this post I explore some of the ways we can do so. Join me!
pair programming Onboarding? Join me! Are you new to a project? Is your team getting a new member? How should you manage it? Well… I may have an answer to that.
Our Quality Policy What is quality for 10Pines? As part of the compliance of the ISO 9001:2015 norm we have formalized at 10Pines our quality policy, which is based on three simple but very important
java How to publish artifacts on maven central Quick guide to learn how to deploy artifacts to maven central so they are available for everyone
programming The way of the prototype I almost started this post with a cheesy phrase such as "Could you imagine a world without classes?" then, I realized it wouldn’t be so hard to do so since
git The model behind Git When it comes to version control systems (VCS), we can start naming a few of the most popular, like Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce, etc. Nevertheless, at this time our focus will be on Git,
Why choose Agile? ¿What does it mean to be agile? If I had been asked a few months ago, I would have said that it means using an agile methodology, because it adds value to the
agile Ready! Set! Retrospect! Breaking the ice on Agile Retrospectives There are a lot of glitches or complications that might arise when facing retrospectives in which a team should come clean on opinions and experiences, about themselves or about each other. Let’s dig out and analyze some of the problems we could be facing and, hopefully, sweep them off the board.
programming Is Go simple? Golang authors and promoters claim one of the biggest benefits of the language is being *"simple"*
frontend Frontend frameworks: Criteria & tips to become proficient with new tools The goal of this post isn't to analyze which framework is better, but to provide a set of tools and a couple of tips to ease the learning of a new framework In
