Every day someone new decides that writing code will be the thing they'd like to do for a living. Or maybe just for fun. And thanks to incredible frameworks and Stack Overflow, getting your first results has become somewhat easy. This is great but has misled some people into thinking that building…
You might have overheard people saying or said some of the following phrases yourself. "I work better on my own," "Pair programming just doesn't work for me," "Other people just don't think the same way I do." Usually, when I hear people say these things, we discuss whether we should spend more…
This post is brought to you by Jonathan Soifer. Well, at least without him I wouldn't be able to write it. Jonathan was my manager at Signavio and when I received the feedback that I sometimes come across as too aggressive he recommended reading the nonviolent communication (NVC) book. At first, it…