Looking for a job in the tech sector is a challenge. A lot has been written about the process itself and its quirks, ranging from programming puzzles to whiteboard interviews. However, there are still...
As I already had the chance to write in a previous post, I really appreciate distributed version control systems; I consistently use them at work and for many of my side projects. I typically switch b...
Last Friday, a blog post on Channel 9 announced Achievements for Visual Studio, an extension for the Microsoft IDE that tracks the actions of programmers as they write code and unlocks badges based on...
While issue trackers originate as tools to manage projects more effectively, during the last years of work I have been through some situations where their misuse backfired. Tools originally conceived ...
I still remember one of the most interesting questions I have been asked last year when I was interviewing for a Software Engineering position: How would you explain to a 12 years old what an API is? ...
This weekend I was playing with Facebook’s JavaScript SDK and I needed a quick way to serve over HTTP the files I was working on, so that I could access them in a browser window at http://localhost. I...