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  When did we lost it?

  I just came from a refreshing holiday. It wasn't restful by any means. No, it was quite a job looking after my two-year-old son while travelling. While the setting was lovely I did not sleep longer and actually, I was far more physically tired than usual (luckily all to allow my wife to rest a bit). All of that came with quite an unusual outcome. As thanks to the new job, I could finally after years enjoy wireless time off I lost much need to look into my social media accounts. I did it still, but much less than normal.

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  2 min min read - September 14, 2018

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  How I have lost two domains and what I learned from it

  Recently interesting coincidence has happened. I lost two domains at the same time. What happened to each of them turned out to be completely different. So much, that it gave me a great study of conflict resolution and stress management.

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  3 min min read - December 20, 2017

• Software Development & Management

  10 questions I ask each senior Angular candiate

  

  Times when many recruiters mistaken JavaScript for Java are long passed (except some rare awkward situations). Anyhow there is still very low understanding of specific technologies on JavaScript scene. It's nothing surprising as the market is very fast, tools change and new methods emerge almost every day.

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  4 min min read - October 1, 2017

• Software Development & Management

  UMD, how to break third parties

  I do enjoy good practices in coding. I love the direction that many environments take to organise code and make it maintainable. But very often we think about our code and forget about whole world around it.

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  1 min min read - October 14, 2015

• Software Development & Management

  Why you should not publish your code free

  1. First of all, you can get criticised. You may learn something from it, so you can improve. It's dangerous.
  2. Code shows your skills. They improve over time. Future employer can see you grow. That can end up with too big salaries.
  3. By resolving your problem you can become contributor of huge project. Like posting pull request to some framework. Then recruiter would think, you are a super star... you don't want that.
  4. Your code won't be hidden, ever... Imagine you do something cool, even for yourself. Great new business idea. And then you create snippet that is cool to. Only think is that this snippet has own value even outside the project. On the other hand it isn't something that affect value of the project. Say you build website for estate agencies and you have built nice CSS effect making buttons blink like Kardashians. If you don't publish that snippet as open source it will be forever safe. If you sale your project no one will use that snippet except new owners. If you publish it, you will keep all rights and it will be used by others... what a lose.
  5. Your code won't produce any direct money. No. Worse. You can build business model on top of it that you may not like. Like Symfony or MEAN.io. Making money on service, training and support. Do you don't want that mess and scaling business. You just want to code for food...

  In the end...

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  2 min min read - September 26, 2015

• Software Development & Management

  How much money you lose to earn on ads

  Advertisements for a long time isn't simple topic anymore. It's not just putting one square on your page and hoping for some money to come back. You have to consider multiple factors like:

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  1 min min read - August 26, 2015

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  Do not be a stormcrow

  You have ever been a herald of woe. Troubles follow you like crows, and ever the oftener the worse. J.R.R Tolkien - Two Towers

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  2 min min read - January 2, 2015

• Software Development & Management

  No, wait, it is not a bug – it is unknown

  Have you ever asked your developers to do some project for you? You spent vast amount of time on describing your goals, making mockups, explaining needs. Then you get something that looks ok, but once you start to use it it falls apart. You click something and result is not as expected. You ask about it and you get an answer „it was not defined“ or „it conflicts with other thing“. You keep asking „why you haven’t said it back then?“. Answer is „well, we didn’t know you will go that way“ and again „you haven’t told us about it“. Constant blaming starts to make your furious, team furious and your project goes nowhere. Well. In fact I am not going to make you help any better. Your developers were likely right. Good for you, is that they are also one to blame.

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  3 min min read - December 16, 2014

• Software Development & Management

  Time tracking is very bad... and sometimes helpful

  "laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt" Tacitus

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  2 min min read - December 5, 2014

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  Office is not a place to be anonymous

  I don't mean Anonymous as organisation or movement, but anonymous as a state. After years spent in small teams I can appreciate value of close contact with everyone in the team. Knowing each other’s weak and strong sides benefits in great dual understanding (some small teams can't achieve that, because other reasons - for instance replacing discussion with announcement).

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  2 min min read - December 1, 2014

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  #FailStory: Why so damn perfect

  There are fairy many blogs about success. I enjoy reading them, but they don't teach me much new. In general they say about the same thing, values and rules. Recently my friends followed the trend of FailCamp and I did regret I couldn't join. Anyhow it reminded me that not only successful people have something to share.

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  2 min min read - November 3, 2014

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  4 ways you can ruin your career while asking questions

  Don't get me wrong. I appreciate much people who begin their adventure with coding and I always try to support them. Anyhow many people take very tricky way on their learning journey, which may result in spoiling their reputation and losing job opportunities.

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  3 min min read - October 23, 2014

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  Tomorrow Never Dies

  Do you remember number of articles and books about changes in your life that said: do it now, not tomorrow? Tomorrow indeed never dies. Often you want to do the old song for the last time before changes, but changes never come. The same is in your business or startup.

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  2 min min read - October 10, 2014

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  Power of not knowing

  

  To continue my question from last article, I would like to show you simple scene:

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  1 min min read - October 2, 2014

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  Opinion: Should non-technical people participate in technology development process

  Probably I won’t find an answer to given question, as many cases may differ. Anyhow I hope this article will trigger proper discussion in your team about healthy boundaries and delegation.

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  2 min min read - October 1, 2014

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  Five signs that developer will not survive team work

  I have been working in IT for about 10 years and worked with plenty of great developers, architects and designers. Many of those people formed my current skills and way of thinking. They also have shown me the biggest obstacles for developer to grow. Funny enough during the years I started to see, that few colleagues who didn’t fight those issues ran into kind of developer limbo. More successful have made one product/project and do it for years alone. Others wonder from team to team and always end up leaving because conflicts. Despite anyhow character and cultural challenges, there were always some habits that refrained them from breaking that circle of madness:

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  3 min min read - September 29, 2014

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  Team Group Therapy

  No matter what is demographic structure your team has, sooner or later you will find that it’s not only a set of great skills, but also characters. It really doesn’t matter what age or gender, education or background your team members are. Team as any other group works under laws of sociology, has the same problems as any other group and can be enhanced by the same simple rules.

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  2 min min read - August 12, 2014

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  How can a startup invest in people

  Many times recently I met a statement that people with startup experience come often with very limited set of skills. Compared to enterprise environment that spend huge amounts of money on human resources, it's obvious that level of learning may differ. Anyhow often startups delay any investment in their teams backing up that by leak of proper funds. I believe in most cases, it's because they don't see short term value in education.

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  2 min min read - August 8, 2014

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  5 ways to lose potential senior candidate

  Recently got on timeline nice short article saying that IT industry in the UK is booming. I think that is true. I can see that each day in my mailbox and on my phone. As a senior (hope not because of age) I experience a bit hard to manage flood of various offers. It's nice feeling to be recognised by recruiters. But it's annoying that still many of them don't even try to walk just for a moment in my shoes. If they were, they would figure out why I reject some of their enquiries in a seconds:

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  3 min min read - July 31, 2014

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  You cannot afford to waste time on just coding

  As a developer I have quite high self-esteem. I had a huge luck to work with great mentors and evangelists in the beginning and take part in few cutting edge projects. It lead me to situation when in web technologies I felt like a fish in the water. Knowing mechanics of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, AnsiSQL in each details made me feel that there is nothing that can surprise me. And in fact I was able to build almost any web product. So what's wrong? That is what you expect from senior developer, right?

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  2 min min read - July 29, 2014