Recently I joined one of the STX Next [http://www.stxnext.com/] projects as part of the development team. As many of our projects, it is not a greenfield project — there is an existing code base already (Google App Engine [https://cloud.google.com/appengine/] with Ionic [http://ionicframework.com/
A few weeks back we had an internal lightning talk, at STX Next [http://www.stxnext.com/], from a product owner and scrum master of one our teams. The talk was about their experience over the past year joining an existing team that, until then, had functioned without these roles.
People often come to me, and ask: “How do you get so much shit done? Why doesn’t anything fall through the cracks? Why don’t you ever seem to be bored? How can I be more like you?” The answer is simple. It’s all thanks to my very
I seem to have an irrational compulsion to blend in, to appear to be a native wherever I go. I seem to have this most strongly in foreign cities and countries. I had it when I lived in Schiedam (in the west of The Netherlands, a foreign place, since I’
Wikipedia on Murphy’s law [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law]: > Murphy’s law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. Actually, the way I always heard Murphy’s law be formulated is “Everything that can
So, you decided to build a real application. Not a toy. Not a hobby project. Something that’s supposed to last, supposed to scale, supposed to work and remain reliable. If you’re in any way like me, I bet right now you’re browsing the interwebs like crazy to
When we moved to Poland I did not speak a lot of Polish. In fact, I still don’t, but that’s another story. I definitely was not close to the level where I could actually function in an office environment. When it came to finding a job there I
About a month or two ago, me and my wife got a present from friends: a 1000 pieced puzzle version of this Escher drawing: Yesterday we decided to give it a shot. Have a good look at this picture, 60–70% of it is shades of gray. The pieces are