Monthly Archives: March 2010

Are you satisfied with your career?

Posted on 2010/03/29 by Vlad Horbovanu

Note: this article is about software development jobs, but most of the points made apply to any kind of job out there. Are you annoyed that, despite your many years in the company, you still didn’t get a promotion? Or … Continue reading →

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Mercurial tutorial by Joel Spolsky

Posted on 2010/03/18 by Vlad Horbovanu

  In his last article on his blog (sad… it’s the end of an era), Joel talks about the different perspectives on version control between classic, Subversion-like systems and the “trendy new distributed version control systems”. From his post: “With … Continue reading →

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Check your programming competency level

Posted on 2010/03/17 by Vlad Horbovanu

  I stumbled upon this Programmer Competency Matrix. It is an interesting exercise to check your level and to identify weak areas that you can develop. Oh, and try not to fool yourself while doing it!

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TDD train of thought

Posted on 2010/03/12 by Vlad Horbovanu

  I used the word “help” in this post ( We can’t use Test Driven Development! ) because TDD is not a silver bullet. NOTHING is. But that is not a reason not to look for improvements in the way … Continue reading →

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The UI revolution is coming

Posted on 2010/03/10 by Vlad Horbovanu

  Developing for true multi-touch UIs is going to be fun… all the usability problems we have for mouse and keyboard will look so simple then. My guess is that until some common standards will appear it will be like … Continue reading →

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9 women CAN make a baby in 1 month

Posted on 2010/03/04 by Vlad Horbovanu

  You just have to put some pressure on them! Set a deadline! After all, it works for programmers, doesn’t it?!? Management is used to negotiate everything, so when the developers come with an estimation for the work to be … Continue reading →

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