As makers of enterprise software, we’ve come a long way. We’ve emerged from the shadows of command-line tools and Swing-based apps to build great and terrible web-based platforms, monolithic systems... [Read More]

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Aspect-oriented Programming (AOP) is a fairly novel concept in the world of programming. Most coders (in my generation at least) were brought up on Object-oriented programming. You define entities using... [Read More]

Do you build reactive applications using Scala? Then chances are you’ve had to deal with a Future[Monad[T]], where Monad could be Option, Either, or something more wonderful like Or. While... [Read More]

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How do I love Or? Let me Accumulate the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My IDE can reach, when feeling uncompiled For the Ends... [Read More]

I’ve recently become enamored of Derek Sivers. His personality and worldview seem eerily consistent with mine. I’ve recently learned that he pioneered a “/now” movement, where the author uses the... [Read More]

Cal Newport, in his book So Good They Can’t Ignore You, uses narratives from successful careers to argue, among other things, that “to maximize your chances of success, you should... [Read More]