I don’t remember when or how I came across this talk, but I’m sure glad I did. I believe, the talk is a good starting point if your team is struggling in a decision making area.
Category: Software
The Economics of software design
Recently found, quite interesting and entertaining talk. I hope it will shed some perspective on the development process.
Introduction to NoSQL
Old but quite an interesting talk
Managing Geeks
I have been in the IT industry for more than a few years now and switched a few managers (and work places). Out of all the managers this far, I only had one decent one. In general all the managers I came across seem to be fairly useless. They don’t seem to support the team and always take the most convenient position on matters – which translates to the usual see nothing, do nothing. From time to time I’ve been wondering: “what makes a management job anyways?” – because from my point of view, they don’t bring any value to the team. Perhaps in other industries or places managers are essential, but in development teams…
Today I came across a very interesting article and was somewhat surprised has been written 11 years back. After few moments my surprise turned into a few thoughts, one of which: if information on good management exists, why are there so many useless managers? Naive and rhetorical question, but I do keep asking it from time to time.
If anyone is interested in managing geeks or understanding IT mentality, please read the article and I attached PDF copy in case the article got lost.
Cheers.
Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? By Martin Fowler
I don’t like using term “fan”, however I do read Martin Fowler’s posts and tend to agree with him a lot. His recent post brought feeling of familiarity and a bit of pain. I would like to share it with anyone who is doing software development.
I hope you will find it useful.
N26 coding exercise
A while back, I worked on N26 coding exercise and found the problem quite entertaining. Figured to share it:
Correct, with minor test comments (should not use Thread.sleep(…)) and not entirely efficient but clean and 100% test driven solution can be found here and backup: here.
I think this exercise worth while, do it just for fun and giggles :)
10 Tips for failing badly at Microservices by David Schmitz
Recently I came across this awesome video – dark humor, reverse psychology and sarcasm – grab a beer and have a laugh.
TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong
Recently I came a cross “TDD, where did it all go wrong” presentation. In my humble opinion it is worth watching if you have any interest in Test Driven Development. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM
Old is New New
I recently finished watching quite interesting and thought provoking video about software development and history. I hope you will find it interesting as well.
Awesome TDD & Agile posters
Last week, at last, my little work related side project came to successful end. Together with an awesome in-house graphics designer, we finalized series of inspirational posters. I would like to share it and hope those posters will bring smiles and joy to any software development environment. You can print it and hang it all over your work space.
Links to full size files:
Uncle Bob – Test Driven Development: PDF | TIF