In the middle of February, one of my colleagues, Bob told me on chat that he hadn’t had yet his yearly performance review. It was due by the end of January. He was rather surprised, that I actually...

“Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.” - said Hadrian to his selected successor, the young Marcus Aurelius. At least in the novel called Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. What...

The Obstacle Is The Way is the third book of Ryan Holiday and maybe the one with the biggest impact so far: a stoic life guide. Its title is so evident. I found it an entertaining book to read, b...

Damnjan Jovanovic in his article reacted to five “easy for you announcements” that developers usually receive. I thought that my reply would be too long for a comment, so I turned it into a post. ...

In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we will discover the different functions of the <algorithm> header that we can use to find an item in a container. Namely, we are going ...

Who was it? It depends. If we were looking for a technically correct answer, it would be simply impossible to tell and someone who died long years later. But given his character, his stance, his ac...

I’m a strict person with a relatively high level of self-discipline. I’m strict with myself and with most of the others. Especially with those who I respect, with those who I consider more capable....

For one of the latest dojos in our department, we chose a relatively simple kata to help new people get on board. We were working on the leap year kata in Randori style meaning that we were using o...

In an era when so many people want to have the next big shot when everyone wants to come out with the next big thing and suddenly find themselves at the top, this book, The Compound Effect by Darre...

We were going on holidays recently and we were going far away. We were travelling to Vietnam. The last time before my daughter would go pre-school and my son would start walking. In other terms, th...