My preferred agile heuristic
A critique of superficial agile adoption, proposing a core heuristic: true agility is the internal ability to change how a team works.
A critique of superficial agile adoption, proposing a core heuristic: true agility is the internal ability to change how a team works.
Explains the programming placeholder terms 'foobar', 'foo', and 'bar', and encourages their use in collaborative coding and whiteboard sessions.
A personal account of securing a tech internship at iHub, focusing on the application process and the project that sparked interest.
A critique of Go's verbose error handling patterns, comparing them to more concise assembly language approaches.
A guide to evaluating the health and sustainability of open source projects before adopting them, covering metrics like activity, community, and documentation.
A practical guide to simplifying Python logging, focusing on essential code snippets for libraries and applications.
A developer's perspective on using Stack Overflow downtime as an opportunity to improve problem-solving skills and avoid over-reliance on copy-pasting code.
A tutorial on using Visual Studio Online's REST API to retrieve and filter work item discussion history, including code examples.
The author shares the behind-the-scenes process of writing 'The Hacker's Guide to Python', focusing on practical Python development insights from OpenStack experience.
A historical overview of DevOps, tracing its evolution from 1980s mainframes to modern practices, focusing on cultural challenges.
A developer discusses why they included a 'respect' section in their open-source project's contributor guidelines, focusing on culture and security.
The author renames the open-source project TYPO3-Analytics to 'Jacobine', explaining the naming process and its personal significance.
Announcement of TYPO3-Analytics v0.1.0 release, detailing new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for the open-source analytics tool.
Argues against the traditional 'tech lead' role in software teams, advocating for a collaborative, flat team structure to boost productivity and learning.
A 2014 review of 'Advanced Rails' by Brad Ediger, concluding the book is outdated and not recommended for modern development.
Source [Book review] Tkinter GUI Application Development HOTSHOT February 22, 2014 Hi guys. You might have noticed that I am not so active. The reason
A developer humorously shares their Valentine's Day plans: attending a 48-hour hackathon (PennApps) instead of traditional celebrations.
A software developer's first blog post outlining plans to share technical insights, code snippets, and soft skills like software design.
A satirical critique of source control, arguing for USB drives, to highlight flawed reasoning in tech outage reactions.
A developer reflects on the real stories behind CV entries, like an unpaid internship spent pitching buggy software, highlighting the gap between resume bullet points and actual experience.