I get to deal with a lot of developers and a lot of different teams being an architect (yeah, I just run around like a headless chicken). There is one thing that I have been noticing over the years and that’s what this is about.

At my current gig we are working hard on splitting up an old monolith which is the wart of the our business. This work is time consuming and it takes a long time. Why not write a new system and make a switch once it’s complete?

Studies show that negative emotions are accompanied by greater activity in the right hemisphere (and positive with activity in the left). Studies also show that most of what we would consider “artistic abilities” is mainly performed by the right hemisphere.

what’s in a name? In my experience pretty much everything is in the name when it comes to the art of programming. If you start out with bad naming and a structure which does not communicate any of your intentions with writing the code you will end up having problems.

The map in the cover photo just blows my mind. It shows the whereabouts of the people who’s played videos from the Web Rebels conference up on Vimeo. I still can not believe that we’ve hosted this event and I sure as hell can not believe that we didn’t fuck it up :) I am a firm believer in that everything that can go wrong, most definitely will when it comes to these kinds of things.