This is the second article in a series of articles about the magic of dimensions and Kotlin on the example of the KotUniL library. These are the articles of this series: KotUniL = SI Units + Kotlin. Part One: Introduction to KotUniL KotUniL = SI Units + Kotlin. Part Two…

Amperes cannot be added to volts. Centimetres can be added to inches, but very carefully. Otherwise, it will be like with the $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft, which successfully reached Mars, but crashed miserably on its surface. It crashed because its software developers did not consider the difference in…

In recent weeks, the media and social networks have been flooded with messages about dialogs with ChatGPT. I also tried to chat with ChatGPT. The result of our conversation is in the title. If you want to know why ChatGPT can not be trusted, and why it is better to…

ABSTRACT The paper introduces RPSE, Reification as a Paradigm of Software Engineering, and enumerates the most important theoretical and practical problems of the development and application of this paradigm. 1. BASIC DEFINITIONS Before pitching the thesis of this article, it is necessary to agree on the meaning of the main…

Let me remind you: arity is the number of parameters of a function. Accordingly, multi-arity functions are functions with several parameters. In Java 8, functions were introduced with one and two input parameters. But what if there are more parameters? When you need a lot of input parameters In Java, there is a Function <X, R> and BiFunction…

No, this is not a typo. In this note, we are not talking about structures, but about textures, namely, textures of program code. To explain what it is and why this concept is important to me, I will tell you a story. It was a long time ago, in the…

About ten years ago microservices received their first recognition. (However, there is an alternative view that microservices are fifteen years old). Since then, a lot of firms have taken advantage of cloud providers and migrated their services to them. And some of them have even managed to get frustrated with…

Thank you very much! This is a wonderfully structured and didactically perfect article! Only hint for future readers: If you try to run the Project in a modern version of IntelliJ IDEA, you should adjust the Gradle version in <PROJECT>/gradle/gradle-wrapper.properties. For example in my case I have set: distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distribution/gradle-6.6.1-bin.zip

Recently, a good friend, a psychiatrist, came to visit me. In conversation, he mentioned that more and more software developers with the diagnosis of burnout have recently applied to him. My friend admitted that he does not know the essence of the programmer’s work, but it seems to him that…