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The Bipolar Programmer

The Bipolar Programmer

My StarTechConf 2013 talk

Jano González

October 26, 2013
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  1. THE BIPOLAR PROGRAMMER

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  2. $ whoami

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  3. @janogonzalez

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  4. @hop_in

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  5. A TALE OF TWO
    DEVELOPERS

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  6. HACKER
    V/S

    THINKER

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  7. HACKER

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  8. GET THINGS
    DONE

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  9. FAST

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  10. HACKS

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  11. MAINTENANCE
    NIGHTMARE

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  12. NEEDS MORE DUCT TAPE

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  13. THINKER

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  14. THINKS ABOUT
    ABSTRACTIONS

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  15. THINKS ABOUT
    MAINTAINABILITY

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  16. TOO MANY
    ABSTRACTIONS

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  17. ANALYSIS
    PARALYSIS

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  18. NEEDS MORE LAYERS

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  19. MY HISTORY

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  20. A TRILOGY OF
    MOVIES

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  21. THE HACKER YEARS

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  22. THE HACKER YEARS

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  23. THE LEARNING YEARS

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  24. THE UML YEARS

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  25. THE UML YEARS

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  26. THE HACKER
    WAS GONE

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  27. UML, RUP, GoF,
    XML, ETC.

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  28. STOCKHOLM
    SYNDROME

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  29. EVOLUTION?

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  30. THE ONE TRUE WAY™

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  31. THE PATH?

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  32. FEAR

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  33. I WAS SO WRONG!

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  34. EVERYDAY LIFE
    IS THE PATH

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  35. ENTER
    RUBY

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  36. SMALLTALK IN
    PERL’S DISGUISE

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  37. HAPPY
    THINKER

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  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
    ...

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  39. OMG! GoF NEVER
    WAS SO EASY

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  40. HAPPY
    HACKER

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  41. HACKER
    $1 if str ~= /(foo)+/

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  42. ONE LINERS FTW!

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  43. HACKER

    THINKER

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  44. LET’S WORK
    TOGETHER

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  45. HARMONY

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  46. HARMONY
    (1..42).select(&:even?).
    map { |n| n * 2 }.
    reduce(&:*)

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  47. EXPRESS
    YOURSELF

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  48. EXPRESS YOURSELF
    File.open('my.txt').each do |line|
    puts line if line =~ /jano/
    end

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  49. THE PATH

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  50. THE PATH IS
    NO PATH

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  51. THE PATH

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  52. WORKING TOGETHER

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  53. HACKER

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  54. EXPLORE
    NEW TERRITORY

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  55. THINKER

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  56. FIND ACCEPTANCE
    CRITERIA

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  57. DEFINE
    COMPONENTS

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  58. BALANCE

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  59. DELIVER VALUE
    V/S
    DIMINISH
    TECHNICAL DEBT

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  60. CREATIVITY
    V/S
    STANDARDIZATION

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  61. EXAMPLE

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  62. CASE STATEMENT
    V/S
    FACTORY + COMMANDS

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  63. EXAMPLE
    case account_type
    when :premium then
    # do stuff
    when :standard then
    # do stuff
    when :personal then
    # do stuff
    end

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  64. EXAMPLE
    class PremiumAccount
    def initialize
    # do stuff
    end
    !
    def execute(context)
    # do stuff
    end
    end

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  65. EXAMPLE
    class AccountFactory
    def self.create(type)
    name = "#{type.capitalize}
    Account"
    klass = Kernel.const_get(name)
    klass.new
    end
    end

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  66. EXAMPLE
    AccountFactory
    .create(account_type)
    .execute(context)

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  67. IMPLICIT
    V/S
    EXPLICIT

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  68. CLARITY
    V/S
    DRY

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  69. CLARITY
    V/S
    SRP

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  70. NOW
    V/S
    FUTURE

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  71. MY HUMBLE
    ADVICE

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  72. LEARN ABOUT
    BEST PRACTICES

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  73. DON’T FOLLOW BLINDLY
    YOUR FUNCTIONAL GURU

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  74. DON’T FOLLOW BLINDLY
    YOUR OO GURU

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  75. TESTS
    +
    REFACTORING

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  76. HOW TO IMPROVE

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  77. HACKER

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  78. LEARN ABOUT
    OOP & PATTERNS

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  79. TRY IMMUTABILITY &
    SEQUENCES

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  80. DO SEPARATE
    RESPONSIBILITIES

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  81. THINKER

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  82. LEARN ABOUT
    ONE LINERS

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  83. TRY CODE GOLF

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  84. DO EVIL STUFF

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  85. EVERYONE

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  86. READ A LOT OF
    CODE

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  87. WRITE A LOT OF
    CODE

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  88. ONE LAST ADVICE

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  89. कഁ཭

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  90. SHU
    कഁ཭

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  91. HA
    कഁ཭

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  92. RI
    कഁ཭

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  94. CONCLUSIONS

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  95. RUBY GIVES YOU
    FREEDOM

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  96. LETS YOU STRIVE
    FOR BALANCE

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  97. AVOID CARGO
    CULT

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  98. GOOD ADVICE
    V/S
    LAWS

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  99. THERE IS
    NO TRUE PATH

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  100. IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA
    IN THE ROAD, KILL HIM!

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  101. FOLLOW YOUR

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  102. THANK YOU!

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  103. IMAGES
    !
    • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yin_yang.svg
    • http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/f/
    f4/20050917122925%21Janus-Vatican.JPG

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