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...
The Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox by Jonathan Boccara
The Legacy Code Programmer’s Toolbox is the quite fresh e-book of Jonathan Boccara, the person behind Fluent C++. Not surprisingly it’s about how to attack legacy code. The author gives practical ...
The big STL Algorithms tutorial: modifying sequence operations - move and swap
In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we will discover some of modifying sequence operations who involve either move or swap: move move_backward swap swap_ranges iter_swa...
What's wrong with this person?! No! What's wrong with you?
There is an e-mail from the Daily Stoic I go back to read frequently. I try to go back to it every time someone irritates me - so quite frequently. In that mail there is a quote from Anthony de Mel...
Drive: The Surprising Truth What Motivates by Daniel H. Pink
In his book called Drive: The Surprising Truth What Motivates us the author Daniel H. Pink leads us through the history of motivating people starting from what he calls Motivation 1.0 up to release...
The dead singleton and three ways to overcome it
Oh, singletons… We can’t live with them, we can’t live without them. I remember that in my first team there was a guy with a very bright mind, but he was not yet mature enough just after the unive...
Why clean code is not the norm?
Why is it that #CleanCode is still the exception and not the norm in so many companies? A very interesting question from Marcus Biel, who was the Director of Developer Experience at RedHat at that...
Never split the difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Christopher Voss
Never split the difference is a great book on negotiations by a former international hostage negotiator from FBI. Christopher Voss shows us through various stories how and why hostage negotiation s...