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- — Reflecting on 8 Years Building Artsy
Today I bid farewell to Artsy. This post is my personal journey and my last post as CTO.
- — Why One Giant Source Control Repository Is Bad for You (and Facebook)
Facebook’s GIT repository is a single 54GB animal that builds Facebook. It’s not that big - they haven’t seen the MS Windows one! Actually, I take that back - anecdotal evidence...
- — 5 Ways to Avoid Feature Branches
- — How to Cross the Chasms of Your Technology Career
I want to talk about your scope of influence as a Software Engineer and how to expand it.
- — Corporate America: How to Let Great Engineers Go
This was in my drafts for years, a story from a past life …
- — Making Agile Technology Choices
I really enjoy the conversation with software architects on how to make technology choices. I polled the members of the New York CTO club on the topic and got amazing war storie...
- — Just Say 'No' To Mailing List Spam by Recruiters
This thread just popped up on the MongoDB users list: [JOB]Full time Developer w/ MongoDB experience for a Fortune 1000 client in NYC!.
- — Enginelopers and Devengeers: How do You Title Engineering Hires?
- — Github is Your New Resume
- — Capitalizing on the LinkedIn IPO: Avoiding Short Term Personal Stock Loss
I just mentioned someone’s promotion to one of the person’s colleagues after seeing it on their updated LinkedIn profile. The reaction was not quite what I expected.
- — 0-60 In Startup Tech: Slides
My class sold out tonight with over 40 people attending. If you were there, thank you so much! It’s really rewarding to have an engaged audience where nobody even moved when Bra...
- — Intersection of core values in open source and domain driven design
My second article on opensource.com. You got to love the graphics that the site designer picked! It speaks to the concept of “solving complexity”.
- — Breaking the Software Death Cycle with DDD
Thanks to everyone for attending my “Breaking the Software Death Cycle with DDD” presentation last night at the DDD meet-up at Microsoft. It looks like the topic turned out to b...
- — Agile Hiring: get rid of the open headcount
Here’s a disruptive idea for the corporate world: let’s get rid of the traditional “open headcount”.
- — Help: what are the symptoms, events or actions of a software death cycle?
- — Corporate Change: Contributing to open source @ OpenSource.com
My first article on opensource.com > read.
- — Can hiring women in software organizations save you money on plungers?
- — Corporate Change: Contributing to Open Source
This is a story of corporate change. It’s a tale about how an unlikely organization embraced open-source. It starts with pain and suffering and may even read like an “I hate my ...
- — Personal Technical Blogging Policy
A couple of weeks ago I asked a question on stackexchange: Does your company have a written policy about personal (technical) blogging? I got the answers I expected which is “no...
- — Does your company have a policy on personal tech blogging and contributing to open-source?
- — Учись Работать / Вся правда о том, что нас мотивирует
- — The tyranny of the plan
I feel like I live in this presentation by Mary Poppendieck: The Tyranny of the Plan.
- — IFYYFME, or how to Maintain a Healthy Level of Communication Across Organizational Boundaries
When I lived in Seattle and partied a lot, I ran a party mailing list. I would forward you all the cool parties in Seattle for no fee or any other interest than having you show ...
- — Agile in Practice: What Is Actually Going On Out There?