programming Is Go simple? Golang authors and promoters claim one of the biggest benefits of the language is being *"simple"*
business To Care or Not to Care That is the question! A week ago I had an interview with a potential new client who owns a startup company that is related to sports activities. This potential new client, let’s
business Trapped by transparency or trapped by culture? Transparency has become one of the most popular demands in the recent years and for good reasons. Not so far ago, we went through one of the biggest global financial crisis, caused by
agile Software Existentialism A few days ago, in an interesting discussion I was having in a local Agile forum, someone posted the phrase: Doing the right thing precedes doing things right The phrase caught my attention
refactoring Refactoring legacy code story Is the following story familiar? A client knocks to your door, asking for help with a software developed by another vendor. He complains about developers always being late to deadlines and every time a new version is delivered there are plenty of things that are not working properly.
rails deploy ruby on rails on windows 2008 server and iis 7.0 Deploying Ruby On Rails in a Windows environment can be very painful. I couldn't find any blog which really helped me, so I decided to summarize all the necessary steps I followed to
agile Benefits of agile software development Incremental deployment: minimize time-to-market Since agile processes deliver working software at the end of each iteration (typically around 1-4 weeks) and requirements are prioritized by business value, the organization might choose to release
agile Agile Myths: Shorter iterations are stressful One of the first steps a new agile team has to undertake is to choose their iteration length. My general advice is to start with 2 weeks iterations, although I let teams choose
