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Who should be the master?

I’ve worked in a couple of different scrum teams, one I even served as a scrum master. There was one common point among all these teams, the scrum master was always or at least used to be a softwar...

The Three Laws of Objects

Three laws of objects. Sounds catchy enough? To me, it did. I read about these laws in Ken Pugh’s Prefactoring. If you sense a not too much-hidden reference to Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics from...

Ryan Holiday: Perennial Seller

You might have noticed that I don’t just read technical books. In fact, at least half of the books I read are non-technical. A couple of months ago, I found a great deal on Amazon and I could get R...

Review of 2018

Again? It’s the end of the year? I almost forget to sit down calmly and look back. It was a fruitful year with lots of fun and challenges. In short: My second child, my son, Daniel was born ...

Professional learners we are

Recently I read this post from John Hotterbeek about the burning question of how much you should learn to keep up with your career. To sum up what John wrote about: According to Uncle Bob, you...

Lambda Expressions in C++

Reading through Scott Meyer’s Efective Modern C++ helped me discover a lot of features of modern C++, including right value references, the trailing return type declaration and lambda expressions. ...

The best 13 books I read this year

One of my favourite hobbies is reading. Even as a father of two small children, I try to find some time every day to read either before the others wake up or after they went to sleep or sometimes a...

Reconquering my job in 15 steps

I think I’m better in time management than the average, so to further improve this skill, I went to a time management training of John B. May. It was a one-day training about how we should reconque...

How to use ampersands in C++

In one of my previous articles, I wrote about Scott Meyer’s Effective Modern C++ and that with its focus on C++11/14 it’s like discovering a completely new language. I already wrote about trailing ...

Ramit Sethi: I'll teach you how to be rich

In his first book, Ramit Sethi shares his own vision about personal finance. It’s not just yet another book on how to spend less and save more money as he doesn’t believe in a frugal life. Besides,...