How to Measure The Performance of a Coding Team? During the last few years, I was a manager of coders and had to evaluate the performance of my teammates. It always ended with feelings, evaluation of soft skills. Opinions. In this article, I want to only focus on objective metrics of technical skills and their measurable indicators. Facts rather…

Data Models and API Routes Are Not The Same — The history of IT, though relatively short, is made of cycles, loops or waves. Centralized mainframes that we connected to through passive terminals, then mini, then micro systems, PCs, now every machine is virtualized and hosted we don’t even know where. Languages also evolved. From COBOL, to C, then VB…

The first 30 minutes of my day that help improve my code day-to-day I have been a developer for years, but during the last three years, I used to work as an Operational Service Manager in a feature team. My job was to make sure the service my team was…

Here you will find my own money management strategy. This is no financial advice of some sort, I just relate what I put in place to reach my financial goals. This article is a description of what I put in place last year and I think is the most reliable…

Of functions, modules and packages Now that you have learnt the very basics of coding from the previous article, we should move forward and learn how to write bigger programs. So far, the bigger script we wrote was about 5 lines long and, you guess it, real programs are way…

First coding lesson if you absolutely don’t know anything — Data, Instructions, and Logic In this article, we are going to browse the three basic elements of coding: Storing data, sending instructions to the computer and inserting some logic into your scripts. We will give you some basic examples of code, to demonstrate how the concepts we talk about are actually implemented. It is…

What is coding? It’s no magic. It’s just sending instructions to a processor in order to handle data. Sometimes the order of the instructions is a bit (or truly) hard to figure out and this sort of puzzle solving is what we call algorithmic. All those guys we call developers are making these…

If you look at the Forbes billionaires list, you will sure notice the omnipresence of Tech and Finance tycoons. Fashion and retail owners, who once were leading this ranking, are now sliding down from the first seats. A Bit of History Cryptocurrencies were created about 10 years ago by cypherpunks, crypto-anarchists or libertarians in…