With the invention of source code management applications like Git, writing code is no longer a one-person action. Since code written by one programmer is at one point or another edited by another programmer, code ownership changes very fast. Code written by [ read more...]
Many new products are launched every day with a focus on solving people’s problems. Companies strive to launch products faster to market and be the first ones in their niche. This gives them the competitive edge over other companies, and it also [ read more...]
This piece was a collaboration written by Kayleigh Oliver and Daniel Sayer, writer of the Unexpected QA blog. There are so many job titles which cover the generic role of someone who works as a tester or someone within quality assurance (QA). [ read more...]
Recently, I conducted an experiment with my team. This experiment was challenging enough to make even some seasoned developers sh*t their pants. What experiment did we run? We stopped branching our code, we threw away code review, and we started pushing directly [ read more...]
Should you optimize your app? Should you NOT optimize your app? That's the question. Optimization is one of the biggest questions for programmers. Optimization can make or break any project, depending on how it is done. Many programmers spend a lot of [ read more...]
This year, like so many other people, I set my New Year’s resolutions. Some were easy things, like go to the gym four days a week (I basically do that anyway) and go on some sort of interesting date with my girlfriend [ read more...]