038 - Focus on Agile or Development practices?

This is the 'last' episode. Don't be sad, it's still the best time to be a developer. In this double episode, we first discuss why we started the podcast, and then how we currently see software development in general. Donau Tech Radio (podcast)  Developer Melange (podcast)

In his new book, Eric takes a different approach to teaching principles of functional programming. We discuss what it means to not use a functional programming language. Links: Grokking Simplicity (book) PurelyFunctional (homepage) LispCast (homepage) Haskell Programming from first principles (book) Domain Modeling Made Functional (book) Coderetreat in April (online) New Orleans Functional Programming Club Tuesday Hack Night FrontEndParty GDG New Orleans Special thanks to Manning for supporting this episode; Use discount code "podmelange20" at your first order to receive a 40% discount.

Paul switched job after 14 years in the same company working for the same client. He changed environments, programming language and even his developer machine OS including keyboard layout. How did it go? Links: Gather Town Domain-Driven Design Meetup Vienna Microservices, Reactive and Distributed Systems Meetup Vienna

We discuss with David whether it is important to train on Agile development or more on development practices. Links: David Tanzer (Homepage) Agile Developers Practices (Book) Agile Antipatterns (Book) Global Day of Coderetreat (Homepage) Global Day of Coderetreat (Vienna, online) Rust Meetup Linz Technologieplauscherl

If you can’t reach your audience with classic marketing, Philipp Krenn explains the different aspects of working with their community at Elastic. Links: Philipp Krenn (Twitter) Elastic meetup Vienna DB Meetup Papers we love Meetup

BDD has been around for a while now, but in many cases it is only utilised as a technical aid. In this episode we try to unpack the power BDD could give us, together with Gáspár Nagy, the creator of SpecFlow.

We talked with J. B. Rainsberger about his idea of a Universal Architecture and how it helps people to get architectural decisions right. In addition, we talked about the continuing importance of clean code, even in times of distributed systems and microservice architectures. Links: J.B. Rainsberger The World's Best Intro to TDD 7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the Fundamental Theorem of Agile Software Development The Universal Architecture Rust Linz

Maaret Pyhäjärvi changed jobs recently and compares her experience as  'time travel 10 years to the past'. This leads to Continuous Delivery and crafting your job for impact. Further details: http://developermelange.com/034-time-travel-to-the-past/

Lisi Hocke talks about her personal learning tour, focusing on testing.  Driven by personal challenges, this way to learn brought her a lot of  new experiences and expanded her network. https://www.lisihocke.com/ - Lisi Hocke https://agiletestingdays.com/miatpp/ - Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person https://www.lisihocke.com/2018/10/my-testing-tour-2018-a-challenge-worth-tackling.html - Lisi's Testing Tour http://developermelange.com/018-why-journeyman-tour/ - Episode 018 - Who should do a journeyman tour? https://www.sba-research.org/sba-live-academy/ - SBA Live Academy https://mobretreat.github.io/Day%20of%20mob%20retreat - Global Day of Mobretreat https://www.lisihocke.com/2020/04/speaking-at-conferences-my-personal-advice.html - Guide on public speaking https://www.lisihocke.com/2019/12/my-pact-for-2020-let-the-next-challenge-begin.html - Security Challenge

We talk about guides and rules for programmers in the scope of their code style and object style. With the help of book author Matthias Noback we realize that there is more possible with static analysis than one might think. And there is definitely a use for a catalogue of stereotypes of classes. Matthias Noback (homepage) Matthias Noback - Object Design Style Guide (book)