I don’t mean your Facebook feed or that news portal full of violence. I mean your books. Including the very ones covering the latest technologies. Including the ones about the most important aspect...

If you are into coding dojos and solving katas, you might have already tried the Gilded Rose kata by Emily Bache. In this kata, you are given some existing code that handles the quality and the nu...

Last year I have read the first book of Tim Ferriss, the “Bible of life hackers”, The 4 Hour Work Week(4HWW). Recently I finished reading one of his other books The 4 Hour Body(4HB). I don’t know...

What are the most important things to understand before performing source code optimization? Or even better, what factors to consider when you intend to write performant code? I think the most i...

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...