alediaferia.com – thoughts on building software
In this blog I publish my thoughts on building software products, working agilely, team dynamics, software architecture, leadership and more.
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Business outcome language: an introduction for software engineers
Reading Time: 4 minutesClarifying what the problem is instead of mandating a specific solution will let the engineers and the designers explore the best approach within the current constraints.
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Email development with React and Webpack
Reading Time: 5 minutesEmail development is often an overlooked practice due to the peculiarities and constraints that most email clients impose. If you want to deliver a delightful user experience to your product you have to maintain its design consistent across all the media it is consumed from. An email is one way your product…
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Technical debt kills your company
Reading Time: 9 minutesThe early days of a startup are often a chaotic mix of excitement, rush and fear. Software-enabled startups are learning about their product as they iterate with their first customers. This leads to frequent and unplanned changes that will help rapidly evolve their product to fit the market they’re trying to disrupt.…
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Autocomplete engine in Go: let’s build it
Reading Time: 4 minutesSome time ago I worked on a small autocomplete web service for fun and curiosity. Part of it consists pretty much of what I’m going to talk about in this post. We’re gonna build a small completion suggester in Go. A couple of assumptions I’ll have for this experiment are: we don’t…
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Gogoa – Cocoa bindings for Go
Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t actually know why but I was wondering how easy it is to integrate Cocoa with Go. Well [SPOILER] looks like it’s super easy! The first comfortable piece I encountered, actually, was Go 1.3 changelog where it states: Finally, the go command now supports packages that import Objective-C files (suffixed .m) through cgo. Since…
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A native iOS app with a Qt third-party library
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’m wrapping up here pieces of information that I used to setup a working native iOS project taking advantage of a library I wrote mainly using Qt. The library I wrote has nothing to do with GUI, it just helps me dealing with connectivity, REST API interaction, file system access, compression… Also,…
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Workaround Windows Tray Area Item Preference
Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction I’m not an experienced Windows developer. I had to make it clear 🙂 Today I had the chance to implement kind of a nasty hack on Windows. I had to make my application tray icon always visibile, at least by default. I swear I honor user preference then. I know this…
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