We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary.
As Harold S. Dodge said many years ago, ‘You cannot inspect quality into a product.’ The quality is there or it isn’t by the time it’s inspected. W. Edwards Deming
Code reviews are a great tool for polishing good code into great code, but they aren’t going to turn bad code to good.
This is an example of using the Reader and Writer monads to solve a problem which cropped up on a project I am working on.
Before getting to the problem, what are the Reader and Writer monads?
Underscore are very proud to be assisting with the organisation of this year’s Scala Exchange, and as part of this we are announcing a new support program for new speakers and attendees.
There tend to be a lot of the same faces at Scala conferences. They are a great group of people, and we’re always happy to hang out with them and learn from them.
However, we also want to add new voices to the mix. We want to encourage people we haven’t heard from before, and particularly people who have never attended or spoken at a Scala conference to come to Scala Exchange. Hence we are announcing a set of support services for people who haven’t attended or spoken at a Scala conference before.
Scala Days 2014 wrapped up last week. There were many great talks and great conversations. Here I want to highlight some of the … well … highlights of the three hectic days the five of us spent in Berlin.
We are thrilled to announce the launch of underscore.io, our new web site for Scala training and mentoring. We are launching our new mentoring programme today to provide ongoing support for teams after receiving training, and over the coming months we will be publishing online versions of our most popular face-to-face courses.