Binance Smart Chain (BSC) just gained a Decentralized Exchange and NFT ecosystem — Following a brief lull, Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is starting to heat up again. For investors that’s great news, although personally I’m far more interested in the technology side of things. (Doesn’t stop me investing on the side, of course!). A relatively new DeFi project, BSC Station, is turning out to…

CodeBot from Parallel Agile is a versatile product. Give it a domain model (in the form of a simple UML class diagram), and it will generate a complete, working software stack… from client libraries in a variety of languages, to a secure REST API server working with a choice of…

Software development as an industry regularly embraces change. New programming languages, new software libraries to learn, new versions of software libraries to learn, even entirely new ways of working… as an industry, we face change regularly and as part of our work. But the novel Coronavirus, and the world’s inevitable…

Does the amount of work left always seem to rise during a sprint rather than drop? This happens to a lot of teams, and the cause is almost always the same. The classic (though often misunderstood and misused) burndown chart represents a running total of the estimated effort remaining in…

Faced with an upcoming programmer interview? It’s pretty much a certainty that you’ll be asked to complete a coding task. This could be a “homework” assignment that you prepare ahead of time, or an on-site programming task done during the interview itself. Either way, it’s your opportunity to really shine…

When we develop a new software feature or story, all too often error handling is tacked-on as an afterthought — or worse, when a bug happens to be found. This can result in many edge cases and error conditions simply being missed. Result? …

What’s the difference between a unit test and a component test, and when should you choose which to write? For many developers, an obvious consideration is size — the amount of code a test covers. By definition, unit tests are “small” as they each cover a single method or class…