In Part I, I explored some of the most popular software development methodologies (SDM) to explain why they often fail to improve our outcomes. In Part II, I will focus on The Infinite Loop, a new but not revolutionary (on purpose) SDM. Note: This is going to be a long post! Please note that if you don’t have time (or don’t fancy) to read this much, the contents of this post are also available as a more concise slide deck. 4. How do we fix this? # The following list contains some of the main actions I believe we must take to solve the problems described in PART I. “Kill” Scrum: Scrum has hel ..read more

It blows ? my mind to think that my #opensource project InversifyJS has reached over 100 MILLION DOWNLOADS on npm. InversifyJS is a lightweight (<50KB) but powerful Inversion Of Control (IoC) container for #JavaScript applications powered by #TypeScript. It is used to implement Dependency Injection (DI) in thousands of applications, including high-profile products like Microsoft Sway and over forty thousand open source repositories on #GitHub and over two thousand open source packages on #npm. Since its release in 2015, many developers have reached out to share things they have built using ..read more

LEARN HOW TO SCALE A BUSINESS SUSTAINABLY FOR LASTING GROWTH # The concept of scaling a business is often used interchangeably with growing a business, but these are two distinct concepts. Take successful startups or new small businesses: Without a clear definition of scaling a business, we mistakenly think of these companies as successful because they achieved massive growth in a short period of time. The reality is when a company grows too fast, it makes itself vulnerable to a range of problems stemming from not having created a sure foundation to support rapid development. Learning how to s ..read more

Is our industry’s obsession with clean code setting us back? # I’ve been in the software industry for 15+ years now, and as time goes on, I feel like I’m becoming increasingly delusional. As a fellow developer, I have been brainwashed by our industry’s rhetoric to believe everything is about writing “clean code”. You know what I’m talking about: Talk is cheap; show me the code! We are not aware, but the problem starts when we are junior developers. We are eager to learn and often ask our senior peers for advice. We ask things like: What books do you recommend? Two of the most recommended books ..read more

In this post, we are going to learn how to implement customer support capabilities using a minimal code approach and relying on third party services. There are a lot of situations in which you might need to implement some customer support capabilities. Maybe you are developing your own product, or maybe you are working for a company that needs to improve their operations. With the arrival of COVID-19, e-commerce has become a major concern for most businesses. Having a good customer support strategy in place is a must these days. Online consumers demand features like online live chat or multi-c ..read more

We are very happy to announce that after many months of work the JSDayIE tickets are now on sale! About a year ago we started to work on JSDayIE, the first JavaScript conference in Ireland. Ireland has a huge developer community, in fact, Dublin has a very high developer ratio and it is the home of the EU HQ of many global software companies such as Microsoft, Google, Twitter or Airbnb. However, for some strange reason, Ireland doesn’t have a conference dedicated to the web development community (A few years ago Ireland was home of the Web Summit but it moved to Lisbon). So we decided to ..read more