engineering
Programming in English
We sell an education in science, technology, engineering and maths as the basis of software development, but in doing so, we risk leaving out the most essential skill of all, written English
Dec 04, 2018
Kotlin Contracts
Learn how Kotlin contracts can be used to inform the compiler about a function's behaviour
Sept 27, 2018
Kotlin Inline Class
How this will merge the power of custom types with the performance of primitives
Sept 21, 2018
Kotlin Everywhere
Considering Kotlin? Here is why we made the switch from Java and why your developers will want to do the same.
Sept 04, 2018
Chaos and Order
A look at how ideas of order and chaos apply to software development
Mar 12, 2018
Avoiding Defensive Checks
When to use defensive checks and assertions in code and when to avoid
Oct 19, 2017
The Phantom Type Menace
Fourth article in a series of posts introducing Functional Programming concepts. In this post we introduce Phantom Types
Jul 02, 2017
Monads For The Masses
Third article in a series of posts introducing Functional Programming concepts. In this post we introduce Monads
Jun 25, 2017
Curry On Regardless
The second in a series of posts introducing Functional Programming concepts. This post looks at the closely related concepts of Currying and Partial Application
Jun 14, 2017
Over-Thunking It
With the increasing adoption of functional programming there are strange terms slowly moving their way from academic obscurity to mainstream software engineering. Thanks mainly to the React and Redux frameworks, the term Thunk is increasingly en vogue.
Jun 09, 2017
The Planning Fallacy (and how it biases estimation)
How the psychological phenomenon of planning fallacy can bias your estimations in software
Apr 10, 2017
Empowering ObservableCollection with Rx
An introduction to using ObservableCollection in Rx and C#