Software Development
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The Lazy Expert
Until two years ago I was reading tech articles every day, I was regularly watching presentations, I was contributing significantly…
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Boost your development speed
I’m really pragmatic on this. To go faster, you need to avoid the things that slow you down. These blockers…
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Collaborative development: how did we get here?
I have been doing software development for over 30 years and it has been fun to watch how the idea…
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SQL Trick: row_number() is to SELECT what dense_rank() is to SELECT DISTINCT
The SQL:2003 standard ranking functions are awesome companions and useful tools every now and then. The ones that are supported in…
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Having fun with Git
I recently read The Git Book. As I went through the Git Internals parts, it struck me how simple and…
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Don’t You Know that Support is the Most Important Part of a Developer’s Job?
Agile development – because you are building working software faster and delivering it incrementally – forces development teams to face…
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Creativity and our life as employees
I answered the following question on Quora: Creativity: Do creative people get bored at work more easily than non-creative people?…
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The Significance of HTML5
HTML5 is important for three reasons. And its importance starts with the end of browser plugins. That’s right. With HTML5,…
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Coarse-grained benchmarking
While developing our software, we are all about metrics – even to the fact where I am pretty sure at…
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