Book Review & Digest: Capital In The Twenty-First Century

My key takeaways and highlights from the book. This is not an objective and consistent review. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty is together with Thinking, Fast and Slow, the most important book on society I’ve ever read. And together with Rawls’ A Theory of Justice it has shaped my opinions on society

Tiny, Tiny Steps – Experience Report Developing A Feature In Minimal Value-Adding Increments

A post for those who want to see what an iterative, MVP-driven development of a feature looks like. @lukew: Start with the simplest version you can. It’s much easier to add complexity than to remove it. Once upon time, there was a webshop portal with hundreds of partner webshops displayed on the front page. Potential

Notes From CodeMesh 2014

My consise highlights from CodeMesh 2014. Philip Potter has very good CodeMesh notes as well, as usually. TODO: Check out the papers mentioned in the  NoSQL is Dead talk. (<- slides) Tutorial: QuickCheck (John Hughes) General QC => Less code, more bugs found QC tests are based on models of the system under test –