Jekyll2021-02-08T16:28:49+00:00https://hamza.khan-cheema.com/feed.xmlWebDev :Hamza Khan-CheemaPersonal space of Hamza Khan-Cheema. A software developer based in the UK with over 17 years of experience building innovative web applications.Hamza Khan-Cheemahamza@khan-cheema.comFinally Blogging again2021-02-07T12:00:00+00:002021-02-07T12:00:00+00:00https://hamza.khan-cheema.com/blog/blogging-again<p><img src="/assets/img/blog.jpg" alt="Blog" /></p>
<h2 id="im-back">I’m Back</h2>
<p>After many years absence I have decided to relaunch my blog.</p>
<p>My intention is to have a personal place I can get back into writing and sharing some of my current thoughts within the software
engineering and business world.</p>
<p>I am still focused on Ruby as a language, but have lost favour with the <em>‘Rails Way’</em> of doing things. I have explored Elixir and Erlang quite a bit and have looked into Common Lisp. However I always come back to Ruby and still enjoy working with it. You can’t beat the satisfaction coding in Ruby brings.</p>
<p>With the advent of Ruby 3 and the experimental usage of <a href="https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/doc/ractor.md" target="_blank">Ractor (Ruby’s Actor-like concurrent abstraction)</a> I think it is a great time to be a Ruby dev. I just hope that with these and future improvements we can win back a lot of devs who have left Ruby for Elixir.</p>
<h2 id="future-planned-posts">Future Planned Posts</h2>
<p>I hope to be posting on how we can use Ruby to build truly domain driven applications. This is without large frameworks getting in the way of your domain logic. I am going to be posting specifically about <a href="https://dry-rb.org/" target="_blank">dry-rb</a> and how I have used a number of their gems to build functional cores for applications. These applications try to use good software design practices and implement just enough Functional paradigms to be useful.</p>
<p>I also plan to post book reviews, hopefully they will be useful to some people. The current books I intent to review are:</p>
<h5 id="books-i-need-to-review">Books I need to review</h5>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241370140/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241370140&linkCode=as2&tag=hamzakc-21&linkId=2c10225b87f9d98cf4ea6c5098516c4e" target="_blank">This is Marketing by Sam Goden</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0887307280/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=hamzakc-21&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0887307280&linkId=8093c407a96e7f46823663d58e4caa3f" target="_blank">The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099598477/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=hamzakc-21&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0099598477&linkId=04b786d5e98678bfd508af9e80076e71" target="_blank">Peak: How all of us can achieve extraordinary things</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0670921602/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=hamzakc-21&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0670921602&linkId=bc2d9e98e32eabeaf5c29d386885f445" target="_blank">The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses</a></li>
</ul>
<h5 id="books-i-need-to-startfinish-reading">Books I need to start/finish reading</h5>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0553562835/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=hamzakc-21&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0553562835&linkId=2ae0863a08b06291aa29df706de08772" target="_blank">Sam Walton : Made in America My Story</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786891700/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=hamzakc-21&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1786891700&linkId=a58bfdc38c6cf02f19d6f111a9e05a91" target="_blank">Drive: The surprising Truth About What Motivates Us</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141038225/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=hamzakc-21&camp=1634&creative=6738&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0141038225&linkId=61bb58647c880df65ae79ffd8184ab98">Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="blog-platform">Blog Platform</h2>
<p>I am keeping it really simple. The blog is powered by <a href="https://jekyllrb.com/" target="_blank">Jekyll</a> using the amazing <a href="https://github.com/piharpi/jekyll-klise" target="_blank">klise</a> theme. I am simply exporting it and using rsync to post site updates.</p>
<h2 id="stay-up-to-date">Stay up to date</h2>
<p>If you would like to keep informed with any posts I make, please signup to my mailing list. This list is simply linked to my RSS feed and will send you an email when I have published an article.</p>
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