Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Feb. 11, 2020
You most probably know about Elegant Objects (EO),an alternative object-oriented paradigm, which claims that objects mustbe immutable, have nostatic methods,never useNULL in their code,use no annotations,and so on. We, the EO adepts, claim many things, but not so many peoplebelieve us. Those non-be…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Jan. 15, 2020
There are good and bad soldiers in any team. The job of a manager is tounderstand which is which. Then to promote the good ones and discharge the bad ones.There is one simple indicator I use to make this segregation. It’s a simplequestion I either hear from my people or don’t. Those who ask itare …
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Jan. 7, 2020
Being just yet another software developer in a large enterprise is a pain. You are surroundedby legacy code, inconsistent architecture, low quality standards (assuming they even exist),lack of coding discipline, broken or dirty unit tests, mediocre programmers, and so on. On top ofthat, the managem…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Dec. 30, 2019
I’m not talking about those who arefamous, well-paid, or the authors of big and popular products.They are not necessarily talented, even though their results are outstanding.Talent is something some of us have as God’s gift.Very few of us… otherwise it would not be called a talent.We all know what …
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Dec. 23, 2019
Altruism means selflessly giving others more than you take back, while egoism meansselfishly taking more than you return. Modern theories of managementand social life tell us that altruism means prosperity for the societyand success to the project. In my bookCode Ahead I claim the opposite: altruis…
Written by Yegor Bugayenko
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on Dec. 2, 2019
When you review a pull/merge request from someone, do you check outthe branch and run the build? I usually don’t, butsome people do.Their obvious reason is: running a build, or even testing the product manually,helps find more important errors. Just looking at the source code may notreveal all visu…