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Remote Working - More Than One Year On...

Remote Working - More Than One Year On...

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mike lines

Someone was asking me about my thoughts on Remote Working after 2020, and after the quite peculiar year we had both from a personal and professional perspective, I had so many I decided to write them down and share them! [...]

The power of functional interfaces in test

The power of functional interfaces in test

staff
staff

How to use functional interfaces to mock behaviours in tests without implementing classes [...]

Unit testing in Kotlin with JUnit 5 and MockK

Unit testing in Kotlin with JUnit 5 and MockK

fabrizio_duroni
fabrizio duroni

I recently discovered MockK, a mocking library created for Kotlin. Let's see how it is possible to write modern unit tests with MockK + JUnit 5. [...]

Pair programming tips and tricks

Pair programming tips and tricks

fabrizio_giovannetti
fabrizio giovannetti

Pair programming is a well-known XP technique that is not difficult to implement. But as usual with a new approach, it's easy to start but not so easy to start well. I would like to share with you my experience of pair programming while hoping to give you some useful advice. [...]

How to live in a pure world

How to live in a pure world

staff
staff

Make side effects pure [...]

A matter of purity

A matter of purity

staff
staff

What are pure functions? Why should you even care? [...]

Checked vs unchecked exception (with FP glasses)

Checked vs unchecked exception (with FP glasses)

staff
staff

The dark side of Unchecked Exceptions [...]