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I went to RivieraDEV 2018

RivieraDEV is a conference organized by developers and for developers. That’s how the organizers advertised the event and you can actually feel it. Especially when you consider that some of the org...

How to automatically format your C++ code regardless the IDE you use

If you follow me, you might already have noticed that I’m a big fan of coding guidelines. Yet, I don’t particularly enjoy commenting on formatting, such as indentation, tabs vs spaces, whitespacing...

Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People

I’m not good at connecting people. I’m too introverted and maybe still a bit shy. I was like that as a child and I’m still a bit. Even though the years I spent at working in and next to politics he...

The only one way to educate efficiently

“How does one lead free men? By being better than they… By being better and thus commanding their emulation.” This is also true for clean coding. The best form of evangelism is always behaviou...

John Sonmez - The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide

You might have read my post about how I organize my activities and I mentioned a kind of a kanban board I use, that I took from Sonmez. His Career Guide is organized into 60 chapters on almost 800 ...

The 7 worst things a manager can do to a newcomer

During our careers, we will be newcomers again and again from time to time when we change teams or jobs. This fact means that most of us will have a long list of what our manager should have done d...

Which Is Harder To Find?

In the field of software development, you will find more people who like building things from scratch than people who like to work on legacy code. Yet, you will find more developers who will actual...

Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design

I’ve read quite a few books about clean coding principles or about good coding practices. What I missed a bit is more about software architecture. Hence I enqueued some books about that topic and I...

New design - just keep it simple

My blog is powered by Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. To build it I learnt a lot about HTML, CSS, Javascript and the Jekyll framework itself. It’s been a great experience. Although, I’m neither ...

Class initialization and nasty cores

I’ve started to work on an old and big application recently so that I can practice what I read in Michael Feathers’ must-read book on Working with legacy code. A week ago my most experienced colle...