HubSpot tech blog published great article on job balancing and tech leads paradox of gatekeepers gardeners. You might be a gatekeeper if: your team regularly waits for you to review their PRs. your team waits to do the next thing assigned to them instead of taking initiative to find projects for themselves you hesitate to go on vacation because you’re concerned your team will struggle in your absence On the opposite....
On March 2017, Eugene Gusev had an interesting talk (in Russian) at HolyJS regarding the technological singularity as whole in Front-End, and JavaScript ecosystem in particular. As a thesis taken, he noted an enormous number of 350k packages in NPM. Few points being stated over the talk: Quality of the packages (aka younglings publish low quality tools) Hype over the ecosystem (frameworks and libs go up and down in popularity scale)....
I’ve been using Office 365 for office correspondence for about 7 months, since I moved to Qobo. Today I say enough to Office365 corporate lookalike email client. Everything is back to Google. UX experience One of the things I couldn’t get used to is the right-click bindings. I guess the assumption was to enrich the functionality of the interface by letting you move/delete assets on your sidebar (aka folder management). As the result - half of the browser daily routine is cut off....
It’s old, but still relevant to the topic. I’m pretty sure that everybody had this kind of interface on one of their jobs. I’m pretty sure it’s still there! First rule of UI club - you don’t talk about crap UI’s you designed in the club.
Seth Godin published once again a great article on work/life motivation. Becoming a better version of yourself Catastrophe (or the world as we know it will end) Connection (because others will join in) Creative itch (the voice inside of you wants to be expressed) Dissatisfaction (because it’s not good enough as it is) Engineer (because there’s a problem to be solved) Generosity (because it’s a chance to contribute) Possibility (because we can, and it’ll be neat to see how it works in the world) Selection (to get in, win the prize, be chosen)
It’s been a long way for the definition to get to this blog post, so i’ll choose the one which favors the most, meanwhile its revision history: Paul M Jones: Definition of “Done” [2016] Mehdi Khalili: Definition of “Done” in MVC project [2011] Paul Stovell: “Done” criteria [2010] AgileFAQ: definition of “done” [2007-10] An example Story definition of done would look like this. All story should have automated acceptance test. The story should have working code supported by unit test that provide around 60 – 70 percent coverage....
It’s been already one month since I moved to Qobo Ltd, as a backend developer, so it’s about time to do some benchmarks on the work done. Open-Source The level of open source involvement of Qobo is enormous. All the projects I’ve been involved in before were always about open-source: it was either based on open-source, or using open-source solutions into some extend. Every time it ends up locking down the solutions for indoor use....
Absolutely great article by Seth Godin on hardware/software perspectives. Looking at the giants, like Apple. Here are some of points from the article: Software can change faster than hardware, which means that in changing markets, bet on software. * It’s tempting to treat the user interface as a piece of fashion, some bling, a sort of jewelry. It’s not. It’s the way your user controls the tool you build. Change it when it stops working, not when you’re bored with it....
National Geography publishes world’s best 20 hikes: France, Italy, Switzerland. Definitely the places to visit for hiking.
ESET researchers discovered an Android backdoor Trojan controlled by tweets. Detected by ESET as Android/Twitoor, it’s the first malicious app using Twitter instead of a traditional command-and-control (C&C) server. After launch, the Trojan hides its presence on the system and checks the defined Twitter account in regular intervals for commands. Based on received commands, it can either download malicious apps or change the C&C Twitter account to another one....