Reflexiones tras una emotiva CAS2015

No habia participado en una Conferencia Agile Spain desde el 2010 que fué en Madrid, la primera. En aquel entonces iba ilusionado con 50 ejemplares en mi maleta de nuestro flamante libro de TDD, que colocamos en el stand de Plain Concepts porque amablemente me...

Learning with Peter

Last week I was lucky to host my good friend Peter Kofler in his visit to Gran Canaria, where he came to facilitate the Glodal Day of Code Retreat and also to work together a couple of days in our biggest project at the moment. We’ve been working in the same...

Object references, state and side effects

C#, Java and other languages have the same behaviour when it comes to reference types. public class SomeClass { public string someField; } var instance1 = new SomeClass(); // instance1 is a reference to an object in memory var instance2 = instance1; // instance2 is a...

Everyone is potentially a teacher

In order to learn from others I must trust them and open my mind enough to see them as potential teachers even if  they are – apparently – less experienced than me in certain knowledge area. The lessons to be learned may not necessarily come from the...

ES6 + browserify + babel + gulp + jasmine

During Socrates Conference 2015 we decided that it’s the right time to jump in ES6 to developer a green field project that our customer is starting. Given that ES6 is already the stable and latest version of JavaScript, it does not make sense to start a new...