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id: 4617
title: 'CONTEXTVS, STVLTE! (Context, stupid!)'
language: English
complexity: Débutant
tags:
- Method & Tools
presentation: >-
https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/devfesttoulouse-2018.appspot.com/o/presentation%2F4617-context-PiotrPrzybyl.zip?alt=media&token=979ce39c-2ee9-4e84-b8f6-9b9e706f31f1
videoId: ''
speakers:
- piotr_przybyl
talkType: Conférence
---
"The best sorting algorithm is quick sort."
"Indexes make DB faster."
"Data should be sorted using ORDER BY."
"Composition - good; inheritance - not good."
"Windows is an operating system."
"You must have transactions in your DB."
"Java is slow."
"Don't eat yellow snow."
"You shall not self-sign your certificates."
"Interrupt in Java is broken."
The IT world is full of mantras/revealed truth, passed (often in oral tradition) among developer tribes. Mindlessly repeated from generation to generation, they cause a reckless usage. At best this results in more harm than good, in the worst case: a total disaster worth whole train of money.
The context is indispensable part of each mantra. Right context can help to distinguish proper usage from incoming disaster.
Do you believe in a mantra by any chance?
How to find out the context?
Can one eat yellow snow?
Come and see.