You want to become an even better developer? Then you must read these books. If you have already read them. Read them again. Design Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software: This is the standard book on patterns and patterns are an extremely important piece of vocabulary for every developer. Not to impress coworkers with your [...]
If you haven’t switched to an agile approach to software development yet, you probably should. But be warned. Agile is not about daily stand ups in the morning. It also isn’t about renaming your “work break down structure” into “backlog”. Going agile requires changes deep in the internals of your team and/or in your company, [...]
Jurgen Appelo wrote a great Article about his new strategy to read books in a parallel and non-sequential way. He uses sticky notes to mark the chapters he read in a book, thereby allowing him to read the most important unread chapter whenever he wants to read. I like the concept, but it does not [...]
