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— ideas
I’m addicted to learning. So it was refreshing to find another group of people, that are similar minded. During lunches and dinners, I asked people to recommend me their favorite books and audio books. I’ve written down only the ones that were new to me. I still ended up with a huge list. I plan […]
I go to conferences. That’s one of my quirks. I think there’s an evolution of a conference goers. You start with big, flashy conferences. Everything is exciting, new city, people, big brands, technology. But then you start noticing the cracks. Talks are just marketing hype for new technology – not too useful in everyday engineering. […]
— Business
Networking always seemed like a big waste of time to meet. Why go to all these events and talk to new people. Why can’t I just focus on building my product. People will recognise greatness when they see it. Won’t they? It depends. Do they already know you? Have you met them before? If that’s […]
— Tech
With new Chrome, we got even more developer tools. Newest version has a feature “Capture screenshots”. It will record your page load and display how it looks as it’s downloaded to your browser. After watching Paul Irish comment on some of the large media sites, I started wondering – how is Val 202 doing? It’s getting a decent […]
— Tech
I think I’m obsessed with numbers. They give me a feeling of control. Page views, trends, visitor count and more. Not measuring things, makes me sad. If we have a historical data, we can check if our changes worked. Are certain topics more popular? Which stories are more popular on Twitter compared to Facebook? Infinite […]
— Tech
Last year I’ve been working with talented team at &&& Creative on technology side of Adrems’ new web site. In the end we implemented a good mix of Solr Search and cutting edge design. Over on their blog, I’ve written a longer description of the technique that we ended up with and what effect it has on user experience. […]
— ideas
Let’s be honest – our tech community is slowing down. We’re organizing less meetups than in previous years. Without them, we’re losing the culture of sharing. While everyone focused on entrepreneurship and startups, we took engineers and developers for granted. This means that we now have less senior developers available, than a few years ago. […]
Confession: I’m amazed at the authoring experience that WordPress provides. Users are productive from the first hour and UI doesn’t get in their way. The story is similar for developers, if you stay inside the world of theme development. Try to do anymore complex and with tests, and it gets complicated. That is where (micro)service […]
As developer, I feel that I work inside my technology bubble. I keep using the same tools. Because of this, it takes a lot of effort to learn new development paradigms and languages. PolyConf was a small conference, less than 300 people in beautiful Poznan, Poland. The breadth of content, participants and organisation made it […]
It’s that time of year where everything old is new again. JavaScript is the hottest kid on the block and it is time to update my approach to writing complex Web Applications. Django and WordPress are fine, but they are safe choices that do most of the computation on the server. What I want to […]