Eliezer Talón Software Engineer

Books I read in 2019

Here is a recap of all the books I read in 2019.

The Swift Alps 2016

I attended The Swift Alps in November 2016, an experimental conference that the organisers of App Builders wanted to make together with some of its speakers. The goals revolved around three main concepts: experimenting, broadcasting and socialising.

What nobody will tell you about JSON

What follows is an edited transcript of a talk I gave at App Builders Zürich in July 2016. I have arranged the content in a different way and omitted some parts to make the written version more coherent. The slides are also available in PDF.

Becoming a better writer

“Why Scrum Should Basically Just Die In A Fire” is the title of an article written by Giles Bowkett that caught my attention a few months ago. Among all the topics discussed, he suggests that the Agile Manifesto principle about face-to-face communication “might be to blame” for inspiring Scrum’s daily stand-up.

Design weaknesses of GitFlow

I started using GitFlow more or less two years after Vincent Driessen introduced his proposal in 2010. Since then, there has been many times in which either me or another fellow developer has faced some issues with it.