Programming and stuff
Last Thursday during a press conference the head of the Intergalactic Department of the IOC presented a project of a new spacecraft, which will allow us to visit distant parts of the Universe, explore The Unknown and bring a lot of The Something to the Earth to sell it for double the price.
Working with the latest technology is challenging not only when you touch it, but even more so when you don't.
I had a pleasure to work with a very dynamic team. Not only our cooperation with clients was changing, but our tooling and coding environment as well. It was a great opportunity to make experiments, so we used it regularly.
and i'm proud of it.
I've spent plenty years on coding, invested a lot of time in developing products, wrote thousands of lines of code and all that without writing a single unit test. I felt skilful, productive and effective at my job. Of course I made many mistakes, but as long as they were easy to fix I treated them as a side effect of my work.
I am totally frontend guy and used to work on web frontends. Last weeks were time of dev experiment for my team. For me? The buzzer in my Challenge Detector is going to be quite tired soon.
the game called Replace Assumption. It's my favourite game and is the best when your opponent doesn't know she/he is part of the game. You are warned, so we do not score this one. We can treat it as introduction. So fun starts with question. Who would win: Superman or Batman?
With javascript it's quite common to experience uncommon things. Sometimes it's about wrong parameters, something is undefined or we write totally invalid code using valid syntax. Moreover asynchronous code gives us headache when nesting goes beyond two or three levels.