This June I went to a very interesting event organized by IE Management School. It is one of the top business universities worldwide and luckily they organize two events a year in Nice, France too....

In one recent newsletter of the Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday writes about being unbreakable and what that means for a Stoic person. Let’s be clear about what Stoicism is. In simple terms, it is ...

The override specifier was introduced to the language with C++11 and it is one of the easiest tool to significantly improve the maintainability of our codebases. override tells both the reader an...

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...