Week 18, year 2016
- Singleton vs Dependency Injection - This post is a showcase for the Singleton design pattern. In contrast to the common belief, Singleton is not inherently bad and I’ll try to show you in what circumstances it is a good choice. [Enterprise Craftsmanship]
- Lightning Talks - I submitted proposals to conferences for almost two years before getting accepted. When it finally happened, I found myself in front of a 250 head audience, realising I didn’t actually know how to do proper presentations. I wish I knew then that there are better ways. Lightning talks at meetups are ideal to practice public speaking, and experiment with explaining or pitching something in a short time. I’m trying to write one each month for the Software Craftsmanship Belgium meetups. It’s only 30 attendees, so it’s an opportunity to try things that I wouldn’t do as a proper conference talk yet. [Mathias Verraes]