The Mindset

When I was just starting my way as a software developer I worked in a team writing simulators and other tools for testing engineers. Most of the tools I wrote were 100% my creation. I designed them, I wrote them, and I provided support for them. This gave me a chance to control almost every […]

What do police officers, vultures, hunters, guards, predators, and cleaning people, have in common? And what they are all doing in my blog?

[Warning: not too good metaphor ahead] When I was a teenager, I thought all teachers have one purpose in life: to hunt me! And guess what, all my friends felt pretty much the […]

Here’s a little party trick for true geeks. Take your company’s coding standards. Count the number of times an ‘_’ character appears in it. Multiply this number by the maximum number of lines allowed per function. Add the number of times the word “comment” is mentioned in the document. Divide the result by the number […]

A couple of days ago Kathy Sierra wrote about the difference between who companies say they want to hire and who companies actually want as their employees.
When I read Kathy’s post it sounded awfully familiar. Sure, I have seen the exact same phenomenon with my own eyes: companies allegedly looking for smart, innovative, independent people, […]

Well, it has been three days since my Hiring Great Developers? post. During this time an interesting discussion took place both on this blog as well as on others. I usually try to respond to most of the comments posted here, but this time I’ve decided to step back and let the discussion roll. Now […]

Stop whatever it is you’re doing. There’s a new buzz in town.
In our ultra-dynamic industry, yesterday’s Holy Grail is today’s old news. A couple of days ago I wrote about Googlism as the new emerging religion, and what do you know, I’ve just discovered the signs of a new one, already creeping into blogs, articles, […]