Sharing your useful code using packages — Most frameworks nowadays offer a set of components that is enough to build great applications, but on the other hand, they also provide a way to share our custom components to solve specific problems which most of the time allows the collaboration of the community to improve those pieces. The…

Flutter and SonarQube — If you have a Flutter app and you want to know about the quality of your code or what parts of the project need to be improved you can use Sonarqube to analyze your code and resume that information for you. SonarQube (aka Sonar) is an open-source platform that measures…

The fastest and easiest way to build and test your Flutter app — In this article I will show how to set a simple and easy Flutter workflow that will: Build your source code Run unit tests Upload the code coverage Run integrated tests Generate and upload an APK file Take integrated tests screenshots and upload the files Create our Flutter example app Before creating our workflow we…

Use PlantUML directly in the Visual Studio Code — UML Class Diagrams are a very great way to document your system, inspect and understand the relationships between the classes and plan refactorings and disseminate knowledge inside the team. Although having class diagrams brings many benefits, generating them manually is a painful and arduous task, fortunately, we can use tools…

A proposal on how to measure the scrum implementation level among different teams. — There is not any official mechanism to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of scrum in a team and is also difficult to compare the scrum adoptions among different teams. The fact that most scrum teams take time to reach a good level of scrum implementation and this suggests that…

The top five misconceptions that I already heard — I have been working with scrum for a long time and for several reasons each scrum implementation level was very differently applied depending on the project that I was working on. Still, it is funny to remember that some assumptions or misinterpretations were common in these very distinctive projects. Over…

Make a new friend and get help writing your code — GitHub Copilot is a really amazing tool and I am pretty sure that many developers around the world are amazed at how well it works, the cloud-based A.I. …

Separating validation logic using model binding, custom attributes, and fluent validation — Validating data is one of the most frequent and everyday activities in software development, even though front-end validation is present in almost all applications back-end validation is mandatory since most of the time we can disable it on the front-end. One of the effects of back-end validation is to have…

Give a new life to your old device — If you are an Android user like me and you own a good but very old smartphone that is not receiving software upgrades anymore, you should know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and you don't need to throw it away or buy another one…