The Bipolar Programmer

My StarTechConf 2013 talk

Transcript

1. THE BIPOLAR PROGRAMMER
2. $ whoami
3. @janogonzalez
4. @hop_in
5. A TALE OF TWO DEVELOPERS
6. HACKER
   V/S
   THINKER
7. HACKER
8. GET THINGS DONE
9. FAST
10. HACKS
11. MAINTENANCE
    NIGHTMARE
12. NEEDS MORE DUCT TAPE
13. THINKER
14. THINKS ABOUT ABSTRACTIONS
15. THINKS ABOUT MAINTAINABILITY
16. TOO MANY
    ABSTRACTIONS
17. ANALYSIS
    PARALYSIS
18. NEEDS MORE LAYERS
19. MY HISTORY
20. A TRILOGY OF MOVIES
21. THE HACKER YEARS
22. THE HACKER YEARS
23. THE LEARNING YEARS
24. THE UML YEARS
25. THE UML YEARS
26. THE HACKER
    WAS GONE
27. UML, RUP, GoF, XML, ETC.
28. STOCKHOLM
    SYNDROME
29. EVOLUTION?
30. THE ONE TRUE WAY™
31. THE PATH?
32. FEAR
33. I WAS SO WRONG!
34. EVERYDAY LIFE
    IS THE PATH
35. ENTER
    RUBY
36. SMALLTALK IN PERL’S DISGUISE
37. HAPPY THINKER
38. THINKER class AccountProtectionProxy def initialize(real_account, owner) @subject = real_account @owner = owner end ! def method_missing(name, *args) check_access @subject.send(name, *args) end ...
39. OMG! GoF NEVER WAS SO EASY
40. HAPPY HACKER
41. HACKER $1 if str ~= /(foo)+/
42. ONE LINERS FTW!
43. HACKER
    ❤
    THINKER
44. LET’S WORK TOGETHER
45. HARMONY
46. HARMONY (1..42).select(&:even?). map { |n| n * 2 }. reduce(&:*)
47. EXPRESS YOURSELF
48. EXPRESS YOURSELF File.open('my.txt').each do |line| puts line if line =~ /jano/ end
49. THE PATH
50. THE PATH IS NO PATH
51. THE PATH
52. WORKING TOGETHER
53. HACKER
54. EXPLORE
    NEW TERRITORY
55. THINKER
56. FIND ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA
57. DEFINE COMPONENTS
58. BALANCE
59. DELIVER VALUE
    V/S
    DIMINISH TECHNICAL DEBT
60. CREATIVITY
    V/S
    STANDARDIZATION
61. EXAMPLE
62. CASE STATEMENT
    V/S
    FACTORY + COMMANDS
63. EXAMPLE case account_type when :premium then # do stuff when :standard then # do stuff when :personal then # do stuff end
64. EXAMPLE class PremiumAccount def initialize # do stuff end ! def execute(context) # do stuff end end
65. EXAMPLE class AccountFactory def self.create(type) name = "#{type.capitalize} Account" klass = Kernel.const_get(name) klass.new end end
66. EXAMPLE AccountFactory .create(account_type) .execute(context)
67. IMPLICIT
    V/S
    EXPLICIT
68. CLARITY
    V/S
    DRY
69. CLARITY
    V/S
    SRP
70. NOW
    V/S
    FUTURE
71. MY HUMBLE ADVICE
72. LEARN ABOUT
    BEST PRACTICES
73. DON’T FOLLOW BLINDLY YOUR FUNCTIONAL GURU
74. DON’T FOLLOW BLINDLY YOUR OO GURU
75. TESTS
    +
    REFACTORING
76. HOW TO IMPROVE
77. HACKER
78. LEARN ABOUT OOP & PATTERNS
79. TRY IMMUTABILITY & SEQUENCES
80. DO SEPARATE RESPONSIBILITIES
81. THINKER
82. LEARN ABOUT
    ONE LINERS
83. TRY CODE GOLF
84. DO EVIL STUFF
85. EVERYONE
86. READ A LOT OF CODE
87. WRITE A LOT OF CODE
88. ONE LAST ADVICE
89. कഁ཭
90. SHU कഁ཭
91. HA कഁ཭
92. RI कഁ཭
94. CONCLUSIONS
95. RUBY GIVES YOU FREEDOM
96. LETS YOU STRIVE FOR BALANCE
97. AVOID CARGO CULT
98. GOOD ADVICE
    V/S
    LAWS
99. THERE IS
    NO TRUE PATH
100. IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA IN THE ROAD, KILL HIM!
101. FOLLOW YOUR
     ❤
102. THANK YOU!
     ❤
103. IMAGES ! • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yin_yang.svg • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/f/ f4/20050917122925%21Janus-Vatican.JPG