Language matters and metaphors matter. As humans/engineers we need to do everything in our power and beyond to not perpetuate sexist, racist, or ethnocentric language. Here is an RFC document from IETF that argues for and describes alternatives that shift specific language conventions used by RFC Authors and RFC Editors to avoid oppressive terminology in […]
Read More →Everyone appreciates an easy to understand and clear technical document. Many engineers hate to write technical documents, only a few reluctantly piece together some form of documentation which in most cases aren’t much of help to anyone. Just like with anything non-trivial, technical writing takes a little effort and a sustained enthusiasm to bear fruit. […]
Read More →Javascript evokes strong emotions among the developers. Whether you love it or loathe it, there is no denying that it has some piece of your grey matter. It was created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, steadily became the world’s most widely used programming language. This paper tells the story of the creation, design, evolution, […]
Read More →PlantUML is a super awesome tool where you can specify your UML diagrams in a text format. It is open source and has a rich library to generate diagrams for all your UML needs. Here are my thoughts on why PlantUML is awesome. I prefer VSCode as my default editor and installing PlantUML for VSCode […]
Read More →PlantUML is an open source tool where you can specify your UML diagrams in a text format. Diagrams are defined using a simple and intuitive language. All popular IDE’s and Text editors have PlantUML plugins.Here is a post on installing PlatUML for VSCode.The advantages far outweigh the very minor hiccup of learning the PlantUML language […]
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