I only wanted to mention these books so that you can see what is covered in Essential Skills for the Agile Developer. It will not go into low-level details about what is the best way to write a for...

This song has a verse that captures the essence of the Stoic battle with a dreadful efficiency: And yet I find And yet I find Repeating in my head If I can’t be my own I’d feel better dead ...

One of my areas for improvement for this year is to learn about software design, software architecture. I keep that in mind when I choose my next books. That’s why I read recently Clean Architectur...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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 ...

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...

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...