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TL;DR: No, unless you make npm packages. If you do publish npm packages think about how the disputes are resolved and decide if you are OK with it. I started using npm a few years ago in our build system. My CTO and his deputy today told me that means […]

At the London Action Science Meetup in January we discussed the article Emotional Agility (HBR, Nov 2013), and in particular how to apply the four steps described in the article: recognize your patterns; label your thoughts and emotions; accept them; and act on your values The importance of using your values […]

Here I give a lightning talk on how we mitigated the risk of upgrading the version of MySQL used in one of TIM Group’s most important databases. Our approach to risk mitigation was Rollbackability. Rather than spend all our time ensuring that nothing would go wrong, we decided to plan […]

We generally prefer to use Joda-Time for our date and time representation. Its immutable objects fit our house style, and the plusHours, plusDays etc methods usually produce much more readable and maintainable code than the giant bag of static methods based on Date and Calendar that we had before. Throw […]

Here at TIM Group we make use of MySQL’s statement-based replication. This means that some functions, like UUID and LOAD_FILE, cannot be used when we write code or do manual maintenance because they break the consistency of the slaves. We now know we have to add the TRUNCATE statement to […]

For a few years now we have identified Event Sourcing as being a good fit for the sort of applications we build at TIM Group. This is becoming increasingly important as the business has been transitioning from an alpha capture and distribution tool to a platform that provides analytics as […]