Software Engineering

Most teams I’ve worked with are asked to commit to delivery dates.

This post outlines a practical, data-driven method for understanding how technical debt impacts upcoming deliverables.

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A write-up of how we used Natural Language Processing at ITV to analyse how different topics are represented in our content through subtitles.

Write-up of how we’ve used event-driven architecture at ITV to enable a data-driven approach to the content supply chain.

One of the most difficult aspects of a leader’s role is striking the right balance between giving direction and encouraging teams to make decisions independently.

Experimenting with snippets of code and getting rapid feedback is a good way to get up to speed with a new language or library.

Video recording of a talk I gave on functional programming at a Scala Central meetup.

Moving from the corporate world to a startup can be an exciting and rewarding experience.

Learning (and subsequently trying to explain) monads has become something of a rite of passage in functional programming.

Case classes provide a convenient way of working with immutable objects in scala.

Monoids are used to describe an aggregation pattern: whenever we need to combine values of a particular type, a monoid instance helps abstract the mechanics of the aggregation from the program’s business logic.

The teams I’m working with use Planning Poker to estimate the size of user stories.

Using functions to express musical ideas is nothing new: Harmony, time signatures, the relations between notes in a scale and musical form all have their roots in mathematics, and composers have used mathematical abstractions for millennia (see Pythagorean

I recently attended one of the coding dojos run by the London Scala User Group.

As mentioned in my last post, I am an ardent fan of the Mockito Framework.

Well-established tools like Mockito and EasyMock offer a powerful range of features for defining and interacting with mock objects.