11 of the Latest Trends in Software Engineering
The future for software development is, as they say, very bright (and exciting) indeed.
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The future for software development is, as they say, very bright (and exciting) indeed.
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Is software engineering “really” engineering? A lot of us call ourselves software engineers. Do we deserve that title? Are we mere pretenders to the idea of engineering?
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For the past several years, I've been thinking a lot about learning science, or the systematic investigation of how we learn. This was fueled by a switch in career trajectories after I graduated college towards software engineering.
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From time to time, every leader has to deliver news that is hard for employees to hear. Even when businesses are doing well, organizational and structural change is to be expected, and acquisitions, reorganizations, or policy changes can affect people’s jobs in ways that create feelings of fear, anger, or sorrow.
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While I didn’t post anything on my blog I have been working on a lot of fun projects in my spare time. Most notably, I have been learning Rust. Part of doing that resulted in a few neat side-projects that I will talk about here in more detail. This is mostly my journey on learning a new language, I am sure there are other ways, but this worked for me.
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Axiom is a fancy word, but popping a few layers off the etymology stack we arrive neatly at the ancient Greek word ἀξίωμα, or “that which is thought fit or worthy”. I like that, and consider each item on the list at least worthy of consideration.
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A laundry list of personal reminders
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One researcher of language acquisition describes her basic question as “How do I get a thought from my mind into yours?”
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In this series so far I’ve pulled out a couple of Koen’s key concepts for attention: sotas and the Rule of Engineering. (…) However, they are cast explicitly for engineers and I’m a tester. I wonder whether, by Koen’s intention, they’d apply to me? Are testers engineers? Does testing overlap with engineering? If so, where? If not, why not?
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