Episode 57 – How We Badly Built Stuff

This week we talk about all of the bad things we’ve done while making software. The good, the bad, … oh wait, it compiles, never mind.

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Survey

This episode’s survey asks: How fast is your _personal_ Internet connection?

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• Allen stumbled upon a review for the MyDigitalSSD BPX, a much more affordable NVMe SSD (available at Amazon).
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• Allen is speaking at the Atlanta JavaScript Meetup, March 27, 2017. Join us there.
• Joe is moving to Orlando!
• New videos published to YouTube.
• Give the 7DRL Challenge a go.

Stickers

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Things We Discussed

• Database first approach
• Popular frameworks/platforms
• The three types of development: services, application/product, and line of business application
• Declarative vs Procedural
• Pitfalls of the database first approach
• Are ORMs a pitfall? Do they promote a lack of boundaries?
• The Lord of the Rings problem
  • … one database to rule them all
  • … or one ORM to rule them all
• The repository pattern
• What can we learn from the Linux architecture
  • https://www.tutorialspoint.com/operating_system/os_linux.htm
  • Or maybe Windows?
    • https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt-everything-old-is-new-again/5/
• So, where do YOU start?
  • DB? UI?
• Pitfalls of the code first approach
• Don’t worry about scale unless you actually need it
  • The Majestic Monolith
• SPAs vs web pages
  • We went too far with SPAs
  • jQuery was the golden age?
  • Or should DOM Manipulation die?
  • Ah, the days of frames and iframes
• Domain Driven Design
• Onion Architecture
• Microservices
• John Deere … wait, what?
  • Build your own tractor
• Treat yourself to a new video card. Specifically, the EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 (available at Amazon).

Resources We Like

We seem to mention the MVP a lot. Get your copy of The Lean Startup (available at Amazon) to learn more.

Tip of the Week

• Bootstrap Studio – Mentioned by Joe Riedly and Paul Seal
  • http://www.codeshare.co.uk/blog/how-to-create-a-responsive-website-without-knowing-how-to-write-code-bootstrap-studio/
  • Also mentioned: https://mobirise.com/
• Use Chrome’s Screenshot feature within the Network tab – Mentioned by Edward Lichtman
• Use Visual Studio Team Services free tier … free Git repos
  • https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/pricing/
• https://regex101.com/ – A fiddle for your regex – Mentioned by Jamie Taylor

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