In software, one developer can make a big difference. This is why hiring great engineers is so hard, and why programmer salaries are sky-rocketing. A high-performance software developer is an incredible asset in a team. A company is willing to pay them top dollar, and the competition to hire them is fierce.
We’ve all been Junior developers at some point. Do you remember that long ago? I sure do. I remember the excitement when I could make something work. I remember the fear when faced with a task I had no idea how to even start.
Desktop application development dominated the software world for many years. However, with the rise of the internet, web applications took over with an incredible pace. When smartphones became popular, mobile applications came to be in huge demand, pushing desktop applications into third place. While the previous statement might be true to startups, there is still an …
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I’m sure every software engineer with a long career had this dilemma: Should I join a startup or a big corporation? It’s a good question since your professional development, the working conditions, life-work balance, and career development will be very different according to the choice you make. There are many differences between a small company …
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While trying to explain to a friend what I actually do all day, I came up with this summary of our conversation: This of course not counting coffee, lunch, and snack breaks.
Office politics always sounds kind of negative, right? Like that bad side effect that you have to suffer in your job. Or like a constant obstacle to any good thing that you can achieve. I don’t think I ever heard someone say “I enjoyed the office politics in that place”. Somehow, when a company surpasses a …
One of the most important things in a good project is naming. You can’t deny it – Good names of Modules, Classes, Methods and Variables can make the difference between a code that’s a joy to read and obscure text. Some names are so bad that every time I see them I get a little jolt …
Did you hear about stackshare? It’s a pretty neat website that I recently discovered. The idea is that you can search for any tech company, and see their technology stack. For example, here is Airbnb’s: So the first interesting thing that came to mind was checking out what the most successful startups are using. I used this …
In the modern world, we are dependent on dozens of libraries. These in turn, depend on dozens more and we end up with hundreds or thousands of dependencies. So now the problem arises for a single application. What to do when several of its projects depend on different version of the same assembly?
I’ve been developing Windows desktop applications for many years now, and the operations behind the development process always fascinated me. I mean matters like issues tracking, build machine, installer and deployments. Everything that involves in a developing a successful project, that’s not directly writing code. In recent years buzz words like Continuous Integration (CI) and Devops popped …
