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!
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
tdd 6 tips for a powerful TDD session TDD is ~95% practice. The theory about it is really simple. Practice is harder, and it's always beneficial to have some guidance as you practice it. Here's a quick list of six tips that may work for you!
java Java Micro benchmarks (or how to enjoy holidays) Brief tutorial for setting up a jmh project to measure performance of java code using micro benchmarks
testing Isolating integration tests from external HTTP services with Talkback A good test (be it unit or integration) should be fast, isolated, repeatable and in total control of its context. If you're doing integration tests that make real HTTP calls to external services, you're instantly breaking those 4 requirements.
Nuestra Política de la Calidad ¿Qué es la calidad para 10Pines? Como parte del cumplimiento de la norma ISO 9001:2015 hemos formalizado en 10Pines nuestra política de la calidad que se basa en tres sencillos pero importantísimos
devops First steps on container orchestration using Docker Swarm Docker has become an essential tool in my daily life as a developer. From my first experiences, I have tried to include it in my projects, and over time I have managed to
Environment-based substitution in Angular 4 In this post we’ll cover the necessary knowledge to implement environment-based substitution. What do we mean by environment-based substitution? Environment-based substitution is being able to dynamically change the objects used by an
Una bocanada de aire fresco en la academia Introducción Hace unas semanas cursé una de las mejores materias del master. Se llamaba Art & Management y fue dictada por Andrés Hatum en la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Después de respirar tanto
animations Creating SVG animations with Snap.svg Animations can go a long way in making your application feel more attactive, friendly and immersive. Using SVG as the foundation of them, you'll get resolution independent, responsive animations, that might otherwise be difficult to build. Let's see how we can create one...
