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Refocus on the Agile Developer

A few weeks ago I had the chance to give a presentation at a company-wide event about the importance of not forgetting about the developer in the midst of the agile transformation. Why is that you...

The best 8 books I read this year

I love reading. I read almost every morning and every night. It sets me for the day and it calms me down before going to sleep. I try to read at least 2 books per month and it’s becoming a traditi...

Does this string declaration compile?

Fellow C++ developers out there! I have a question for you! Will the following code compile? If not, why not? If it does, why? #include <string> int main() { std::string(foo); } Spen...

My DEV birthday gift for you: DEV.to Analytics!

I joined DEV.to a bit more than two years ago. I don’t remember at all how I found this website, but it seemed welcoming. I particularly liked its really simple design. As a backend guy, it was ver...

Stillness Is The Key by Ryan Holiday

Stillness is the key is the new book of Ryan Holiday that just came out about a month ago and it finishes his trilogy about… I wanted to write that about stoic philosophy, but it’s not really the t...

The big STL Algorithms tutorial: transform

In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we will discover only one algorithm, the transform. I find very important, plus it doesn’t have variants like the copy or move algorithms. On th...

Keep calm and do less

The last one of the Five good emperors, Marcus Aurelius had a note in his Meditations: “If you seek tranquillity, do less.” This is one of his thoughts that is the most applicable to software devel...

Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow

Smartcuts covers how to stimulate - mostly - professional development. Hence its subtitle is How Hackers, Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success. By example, the author Shane Snow analyzes how ce...

The brand new assignment expression of Python 3.8

Python 3.8 is coming and not surprisingly it comes with a bag of new features. In this post, I’d like to present only one that I’ve been really waiting for: assignment expressions! The problem Wh...

Going down the road

After years of working hard and understanding how the game works, you got promoted. You are happy. You made a few steps forward. It feels exactly like when you got admission to university more th...