First Time (Dev) Manager Panic
So... you wanted to be a manager? I love my company. I love my team. I love people around me I worked with. I have…
Creating the Awesome Team together
Team Changes In the last two months, my team doubled in size (kinda feels like I saw it somewhere already ;)). We needed to get an…
Find out what motivates people around you
Internal and external motivators Is it good pay that motivates us? A long await vacation? A project award? Promotion? Good work environment? Snacks in the…
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Delegation poker in real life – first impressions
I've been trying to get delegation poker on board for a while. Finally after attending a training of Management 3.0 where I had a chance…
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How I left everything to gain even more, or my immigration story.
People: Do you want to leave everything and move to Canada? Really? Me: Yes People: And why the heck Canada? Me: Dunno, a gut feeling.…
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Team Reset or how to get the team on the same page?
The number of developers in my team doubled in the last couple of months. Ok, well, we went from 2 to 4. The end result…
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Landscapes of code
Why do we feel so uncomfortable with the idea of small functions that have names? What is it about that that frightens us? I'll tell…
We name so much, we’d better name well
Names are everywhere in software (variables, functions, arguments, classes, source files etc...). Because we name so much, we’d better name well. So choose your names…
Nevertheless, I coded…
I wanted to quit writing software for good. Nevertheless, I coded. And I still do. I've been a software developer for 3 years then. And…
What is the purpose of this code?
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton We name and name and name. We name…
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