How to avoid merge pull request limbo
Sometimes git merge pull requests can take time and become long-lived, a source of frustration for many developers. Long-lived pull requests are pull requests that are stuck in a backlog without being approved and...
Open source projects: merging schedules
When do open source projects merge their pull requests?
I was curious about the merging time patterns of pull requests from open source projects. So I extracted all the merging events from Github during the...
What are Static Analysis Tools?
Static analysis tools are carried out on a software product in a non-runtime environment. This means that it is unnecessary to execute a program for the analysis tool to debug the software.
Through this method,...
Designing Better Static Types
Today I want to talk about a programming paradigm that you may or may not have heard about before. It's named differently by multiple people, so let's talk about what it is and discuss...
Scala: Learn to walk before you fly (Part 2)
Part 2 - Building immutability
Welcome back to Part 2! In Part 1 we saw Scala as a language that facilitates and drives you towards the functional world. Functional programming has a lot of advantages,...
