When working long in the same field, people tend to make fun of it and create jokes that make fun of broken stuff that cannot be fixed. If you work for some time in IT, you surely will be sooner or later familiar with most of them 🙂 So to brighter a little day when nothing is working I wanted to create an additional plugin for TeamScreen where you could see some funny images. Unfortunately I run out of time,…
As software developers, we have a lot of rules – SOLID, DRY, YAGNI. They help us to create a source code that is easy to maintain. There is one more rule that in my opinion is much more important than all others – KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid. Why is it so important? Few examples: Architecture During years of work as a software developer, I came in contact with many systems. Often the architect/tech leader imagine a great architecture. The problem…
Javascript had humble beginnings – initial version was written in only ten days and for a whole lot of time it was treated as a second level citizen in the programming world, capable of writing simple stuff like a guest book and that’s all. For years when you wanted to create a rich web application, you used Flash or less often Java and Silverlight applets. I remember ten years ago many people hated JavaScript and didn’t want to have contact…
In past I started most of my IT-related projects from vision –Â how should finished product look like, how should it be named, what features should it have? I spent a lot of time imagining it and all the money I’ll earn from it :). Vision and planning itself isn’t good or bad, it has pros and cons, it’s just good to know them. For example, it’s generally good to know, where and why you’re going, problem is when most of…