I don’t consider myself a big reader in the traditional sense — I don’t read any fiction, for example. What I do read is work and career related, because that’s my passion. But, reading has been getting harder as my life got more busy (think: wife, job, son), and therefore over the past years I changed myContinue reading “Reading For Busy People”
Monthly Archives: March 2016
Drowning in Tools
Live from HR Tech World in London I’m currently at HR Tech. I’m not a HR person, so this is largely an alien environment for me. What’s the Tech aspect of HR Tech? Apps. And lots of them. There’s an app for everything: Recruitment. Supporting the whole document signing and background check workflow. Employee on-boarding. PersonalContinue reading “Drowning in Tools”
There Is No Such Thing as a “Maintenance Project”
Recently I joined one of the STX Next 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 with Ionic, in this particular case) that we had to work with. I’ve looked through the code, and, let meContinue reading “There Is No Such Thing as a “Maintenance Project””
Need for Speed: One-Week Sprints
A project I participated in recently ran one-week development sprints. It’s the first time that I worked in such short cycles, and I like it for similar reasons that I like Twitter with its 140 character limit: strong constraints force you to make tough decisions, to get to the core of things quickly, and toContinue reading “Need for Speed: One-Week Sprints”
