Chris Birchall

Principal engineer at @47deg. Previously @OVOTechTeam, @gdndevelopers, M3 and Infoscience. Author of Re-Engineering Legacy Software

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@volpegabriel87 I opened a draft PR but then forgot all about it https://t.co/zomSldR73b

[Xebia @Xebia_Global]

We're happy to say, 47 Degrees is now officially a part of @Xebia, a global I.T. consultancy!

Our team will serve as a new pillar of Authority at Xebia, continuing our focus on Scala, Kotlin, and other Functional Programming services.

The story: https://t.co/XGL49vga4j

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@jk_mcclellan Like Christmas in a glass. Raisins, star anise, cinnamon, walnuts, marzipan, oranges... a beautiful dram.

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

お晩です

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@oblackwood13 It’s a present I received 3 weeks before my birthday. I lasted a whole week before opening it 😇

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

Quick, hire Amina before someone else snaps her up!

[Amina @a_adewusi]

👋🏽 I am open to a new job as I've been made redundant!

I'm a Scala engineer with 3 years experience, working remotely from London. I prefer functional programming roles, but open to others too✨

More here: https://t.co/VhfHi912KP

Please feel free to get in touch! Thank you ❤️

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@sihil @Sherbet_Noin @cantlin @theefer @gdndevelopers This is a travesty, please rectify immediately, but at least it’s triggered a lot of familiar faces to gather on one thread. Hi everyone!👋

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@a_suenami MSPはまだ本番で使う機会なかったけど、最近気になって調べた結果をまとめて社内発表しました。資料はこちらです https://t.co/6H4CvW1cdo

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

I’m likely to be as silent over there as I have been over here recently, but anyway... @[email protected]

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@SethTisue @posco @tpolecat @kubukoz I spent a little time looking into this, and it’s mostly good news https://t.co/rlObIbpnUS

[Xebia @Xebia_Global]

Interested in learning how to write an @ApacheSpark app using #Scala 3? The latest post from @cbirchall
provides an awesome walkthrough of the process.

Read it here: https://t.co/zOdFjiRMwz
@scala_lang

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@eed3si9n Remember my trolling talk where I took that SLIP to its logical conclusion and added json literals to the language? Those were the days!

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@rtyley @guardian Wooo! Congratulations

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@volpegabriel87 Congratulations!

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

“Policies in cats-retry are like shrimps”

[SoftwareMill @softwaremill]

In his new blog post, @grajo is having a closer look at retrying function calls in #Scala and giving an intro to cats-retry. Learn more:
🔗 https://t.co/HUtxwdErBR

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@akash1810 Congratulations!

[Maintainable Software Podcast @_maintainable]

In our latest episode, we speak with the author of "Re-Engineering Legacy Software", @cbirchall of @47deg about:

🕵️ Spotting dead and zombie 🧟 code
🤔 Consciously taking on technical debt
📐 ...and when rewrites might be appropriate

🎧 Listen at: https://t.co/Rh6yeg7bsj

[Manning Publications @ManningBooks]

Legacy software giving you grief?
Re-Engineering Legacy Software shows you ways to breathe new life into legacy projects so you can maintain, improve, and scale them without fighting their limitations: https://t.co/4wZaxe3siH
@cbirchall #legacycode #softwareengineering

[Manning Publications @ManningBooks]

Deal of the Day, Oct 9: Software Telemetry and select titles are on sale. Check them out: https://t.co/DcpsoLASzY
#legacycode #softwareengineering #programming #softwaredevelopment #Telemetry

[Chris Birchall @cbirchall]

@philwills I’ve used pg-promise and it did the job. Named parameters in queries are quite handy