Writing tests is like eating your vegetables. As a kid (junior), you don’t like them, but as you mature, you start appreciating them more. — Writing automated tests is a lot like eating your vegetables. As a kid (junior developer) you don’t like them, but as you mature, you start learning about the benefits of getting in those good fibers, yummy 😋. Hopefully, you even acquire a taste for it. Typical blogs about automated testing…

In this blog post I will write about my favorite cloud service to date: Google Cloud Run. This service is fairly unique, as it allows you… — In this blog post I will write about my favorite cloud service to date: Google Cloud Run. This service is fairly unique, as it allows you to deploy custom Docker workloads at scale, any scale, even at zero. This means that you only pay for what you actually use. If…

In this blog post I will write about my journey learning functional programming with Scala. I have a very object-oriented background in… — In this blog post I will write about my journey learning functional programming with Scala. I have a very object-oriented background in Java. To accompany me on this journey, I have decided to take this Coursera course. I feel like it’s one thing to learn the theory and another thing…

A different approach to Content Management Systems. — A different approach to Content Management Systems. Google’s search is a cold place for me, sometimes. You see, I’m a freelancer and my main focuses are web, mobile and desktop applications. One of the most annoying job requests I get are small businesses with some sort of unique business model…

Over the years of being a freelance developer for small to medium businesses there was one constant, CRUD Applications. They usually… — Over the years of being a freelance developer for small to medium businesses there was one constant, CRUD Applications. They usually consisted of some sort of ‘back-end’ that handled the content of an app or website. Well, for a website, the solution is easy; Wordpress. Or maybe, Joomla?