Today I’m announcing the expansion of my professional social networking. I’ve been active on Twitter for over a year. That’s nice. I’ve been on LinkedIn quite a bit longer. So yesteryear! I keep Facebook for strictly personal things, and political infighting with distant relatives. I also have profiles on GitHub and GitLab, but that’s not hipster enough anymore. This is why today, I’m happy to invite each and every one of you to connect with me with on my new favorite professional social network… Untappd!

Johathan Hall is a DevOps coach and consultant based in Netherlands. He has almost 3 decades of experience in the IT industry out of which 2 decades were spent in leadership roles. Jonathan is focused on helping small teams do amazing DevOps.

Today I want to let you know that I'm changing the format of my mailing list.

Kent Beck is a very accomplished software engineer, with seminal contributions to the industry since the mid 1990’s. He’s credited with inventing (or re-discovering) Test-Driven Development (TDD). He’s the creator of jUnit, and several other xUnit suites. He’s the creator of extreme programming (XP) and the author of the authoritative book on the subject: Extreme Programming Explained, as well as many other books. Yet with all of these accomplishments, any one of which could make the average programmer envious, he claims he’s not a great programmer.

Edited by Taavi Kivisik Happy New Year to everyone! I was excited to kickstart the new year with a new position at Lana, a Spanish FinTech startup. As part of my first week on the job, I met a candidate for another position there, and we started talking about controversial opinions in IT. Unfortunately, we found nothing to disagree about. Although I was inspired to catalog a number of my own personal opinions about software development, which may be more controversial.

A couple of weeks ago I made a comment to my team at work which I think a couple took harshly, but I believe it is true, and an indication of a deeper problem. I said “All of the really smart people at this company move to the ‘infrastructure’ teams within a few years, which means we have only new, untrained people writing the real software.” Today, on a flight back home from vacation in Oslo, I was reading Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans, and once again I found myself taken aback by how precisely this book has described my work place–and not in a good way!