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Developers are not CTOs, but developers can learn how to be CTOs.

A company’s biggest strength doesn’t lie in its products or services.

A fable in novella form about a seagull who is trying to learn about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection.

This book is a leadership fable about a tech company that is struggling to get more customers.

Start with Why asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others?

There are two known schools in TDD: the mockist school (aka Outside-in) and the classicist school (aka Inside-out).

A radical playbook to empower your people and put your team on a path to continuous improvement.

“Blue Work” and “Red Work” are concepts that David Marquet describes in his book Leadership is Language.

These are two different techniques.

The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.

The book is about his leadership theories to how he implemented a fresh leadership model.

It was originally intended for adults but is often read by adolescents for its themes of angst, alienation, and as a critique on superficiality in society.

The complexity here is not about writing tests itself, but the habits that we have to change to create software that is easy to be tested.

Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse.

The Trident Career Model by Patrick Kua has three tracks.

A great compilation of all topics that are important for management: 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring and laying off, workplace politics, remote work, and others.

To what extent do social forces alter people’s opinions?

Software development is about people: when, how and where they can best work together.

Every project you ship stands on open-source software.

Some nice keynotes # Leadership practices are small things done repetitively over time.

The main takeaway # As a manager your work is to create clarity, clarity, and more clarity.

Let’s talk about the benefits of Pull Requests and Pair Programming, and my thoughts on these after some years of experience with them.

I really enjoy the ideas and experiments presented in the book.

The book Who moved my cheese?

Scrum can make a team faster at building the wrong product.

A new Functional Programming language built-in on the PHP ecosystem.

Stock Market Basics & Essentials Fundamental, Industry and Company Research Investment Styles Such as Value, Growth and Income Investing Short Selling, Buying on Margin, Day Trading

America’s most successful money manager tells how average investors can beat the pros by using what they know.

This book presents a tale inside the main story that consists of 4 characters: two mice, Sniff and Scurry, and two little persons, Hem and Haw.

Explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich Challenges the belief that your house is an asset Shows parents why they can’t rely on the school system to teach their kids about money Defines once and for all an asset and a liability…

Mocking is useful, but “what to mock” usually turns out to be more complicated than expected if you don’t treat this carefully.

Discover another way of sharing suggestions with your development team.

Apply design principles to your classes, preparing them for reuse.

Using array_merge inside a loop is a performance killer.

Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock.

Argument unpacking, function variable argument list, and variadics function.

Objects are the central concept of languages like Java, Python, C#.

Domain-Driven Design Distilled brings DDD to life.

No goal should be an achievement on its own, but the process itself that helps us to go in the direction of these goals.

These tests are also known as Characterization tests.

This book helps you get your web applications back in shape.

In December 2015, PHP 7 introduced scalar type declarations and with it the strict types flag.

If you see something, in the scope of your current task, that can be easily improved, improve it.

From policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, to becoming the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator to teaching negotiation at leading universities, Chris Voss has tested the techniques in Never Split the Difference across the full sp…

Every organisation, whatever its size, constantly has to come to grips with delivering a product or service on time and on budget.

Clear contracts, isolated side effects, testability, low complexity and cognitive load, code fluidity, and confidence in yourself.

You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by The Pragmatic Programmer.

The Call of Cthulu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, spawning an entire mythology, with the power to strike terror into the hearts of even the Great Old Ones.

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915.