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Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out

What does it mean when we say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out? Why is it important? And how else could we look at this problem?

Published by Tudor Girba just now

Mapping legacy software crises

We untangle your software legacy crises. How? Take a tour guided by Wardley maps.

Published by Tudor Girba 10 days ago

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Glamorous World #2: Tudor Girba and Jacob Goodman

In this session Tudor Girba answers questions from Jacob Goodman and provides a guided tour.

Published by Tudor Girba 78 days ago

Glamorous Toolkit Live #4: Moldable analysis of Java systems

How can we solve real problems without reading code? Through custom analyses.

Published by Tudor Girba 80 days ago

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Glamorous World #1: Tudor Girba and Aria Minaei

We started a new video series entitled The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Glamorous World in which we have conversations with newcomers to Glamorous Toolkit.

Published by Tudor Girba 86 days ago

Glamorous Toolkit Live #2: Inspector views and working with REST APIs

Glamorous Toolkit Live #2 is now available. It's about how we use the inspector to reason about a REST API.

Published by Tudor Girba 87 days ago

Glamorous Toolkit Live #3: Example-driven development

Glamorous Toolkit Live #3 is here. We covered example-driven development.

Published by Tudor Girba 87 days ago

Moldable development at IDE Summit 2020

At IDE Summit 2020, I talked about moldable development and how we should not read code. It appeared to be at least intriguing, if not outright contrarian.

Published by Tudor Girba 90 days ago

How to create a standalone app with Glamorous Toolkit

Creating a standalone app based on Glamorous Toolkit is as simple as opening an application specific window and closing the GT window. This can be achieved in just a few steps.

Published by Aliaksei Syrel 91 days ago

Glamorous Toolkit Live #1

The very first Glamorous Toolkit Live is now available.

Published by Tudor Girba 101 days ago

Moldable Development lecture at the University of Bern

I had the pleasure of giving a lecture on Moldable Development as part of the Software Modeling and Analysis course from the University of Bern. This was exciting because this is the very first university course that relies on Glamorous Toolkit.

Published by Tudor Girba 101 days ago

How to customize the home tab of Glamorous Toolkit

Everything can be customized in Glamorous Toolkit, including the home tab. Learn how.

Published by Tudor Girba 114 days ago

Glamorous Toolkit at strumenta.community

I had the pleasure of giving an interactive session for the strumenta.community about how Glamorous Toolkit is built as a language made out of interactive and visual operators.

Published by Tudor Girba 136 days ago

Working with Git from Glamorous Toolkit

A screenshot rich tutorial on how to use Git from Glamorous Toolkit.

Published by George Ganea 147 days ago

Optimizing for happiness on the Greater than Code podcast

Episode 193 of the Greater than Code podcast (1h13m) features a conversation with Tudor Girba covering a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from optimizing for happiness to the power of storytelling and our privilege and responsibility as developers.

Published by Tudor Girba 175 days ago

Discovering Coder shortcuts

One of the first question people ask when starting with Glamorous Toolkit concerns the list of editor shortcuts. Indeed, these shortcuts are not yet visible in the user interface. Still, we should be able to learn these shortcuts from the system itself.

Published by Tudor Girba 176 days ago

Glamorous Toolkit v0.7.1214 beta

Glamorous Toolkit is now beta.

Published by feenk 187 days ago

Make it work, make it right, make it fast

Over the past several weeks we spent a significant amount of effort on improving performance. The work affected the whole stack, and now we have results to show for our effort.

Published by Tudor Girba 189 days ago

How to edit documents with Documenter

A short overview of how to edit and manipulate documents with Documenter.

Published by Tudor Girba 203 days ago

Code comments as live wikis in IDEs

In this article we explore how code comments can become a live wiki if we rely on interactive notebooks to document our systems directly inside the IDE.

Published by Andrei Chis 204 days ago

Glamorous Toolkit and Pharo

Glamorous Toolkit is built in Pharo, and it enables people to work with Pharo systems. Nevertheless, its goal is distinct from that of Pharo and so is its realization.

Published by Tudor Girba 204 days ago

XDoc: executable documents

XDoc stands for eXecutable Document and it is a generic container for various types of documents.