Notes from Uncle Bob's Clean Codes

I’ve been reading a book by Robert C. Martin titled Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. It’s a great book talking about writing clean, readable, functional and best practice patterns codes. This book is based on Java but the implementation of any of the concepts is language agnostic. This blog post serves as important points I extracted from the book. Some will contain codes but some will only be plain English. Here goes. ...

May 15, 2014 · Batista Harahap

Stock Quotes for Android

Just done a new Android application called Stock Quotes. It’s a simple app that doesn’t get in your way and get reminders (notifications) of current stock prices. It is built with the new Android Studio and the development experience was pleasant to say the least. This blog post is also a continuation of my previous post here. Since that particular post, 6 days have passed and the app I was talking about is done for v1.0.0. ...

July 29, 2013 · Batista Harahap

Startup Belly

These past few weeks, I’ve been indulging myself into reading numerous articles both local and abroad about Startups. Most of the articles are written by people from outside the startup bubble looking inside. This boils down into again, Perspective. I’m sure everyone has got something to say about startups, so do I lol. I am part of a Startup that has gone through significant changes internally. I say significant because it’s a different beast since I first joined. Not all of them are great but having the courage to do it gives us valuable experiences. Whether it’s a startup or a conventional company, everything is all about Management. ...

October 20, 2011 · Batista Harahap