The last few days we have spent in the wonderful Amsterdam city, which was picked for this year’s EmberFest conference. We decided to go there by van and our road trip took almost 13 hours, which was really surprising for everyone who flew there or traveled by train.
Many business leaders forget that outsourcing is actually a complex business strategy. They do not think much about its influence on the relations with their in-house employees and clients, or how to assess vendor capabilities.
A 360-degree feedback is a process through which feedback from an employee’s subordinates, colleagues, and supervisor(s), as well as a self-evaluation by the employee themselves, is gathered. This is what the Wikipedia can tell you…
A few techniques which can help you handle errors in production if your client is non-technical. You should always apply best practices in your projects to avoid bad situations. But if some errors slip through your test suite, code reviews, QA and testing on staging, be sure that you handle it in a proper way.
Naming things in programming may not be hard (a matter of imagination), but it is definitely hard to do it right. Also, it turns out to be very unclear what “right” means in each and every context. It doesn’t change the fact that in 8 out of 10 PRs I review, I provide a feedback related to naming, be it naming of classes, methods, fields, variables… you name it
When embarking on a new backend project, our first move as developers is often to use some well-established relational database like PostgreSQL or MySQL. However, for some time there have been different database types available on the market. One of them is MongoDB.
In this article, I would like to share my tips on how to improve your Github repository so basically, how to give it some ‘steroids’. I will cover aspects like using templates, coverage report in Github projects and packages, how to improve the CI build speed and finally, how to better document your code.
A curated list of git commands enough to keep your git history flat I’ve been working on projects where we keep the git history flat (no merge-commits) for quite a bit of time now, and I’ve decided to make a list of git commands I often use during every-day development.
As a part-time Rubyist, I couldn’t ignore Crystal any longer (+ I enjoy learning new programming languages) so I decided to give it a try. Because I wanted to write something useful and contribute to the community, I was looking for a small idea in the Ruby world and spoiler alert… I found it.
