Finding the route to a simpler life
Imagine this: your team has recently become hyper-productive, even though it is small. Great situation, right? Unfortunately, it also means your best senior developer is slowly being crushed by the queue of things that need reviewing. The rest of the team does not know the domain quite as well as she does, so if the [ ]
There is a reason the old myths still work. Narcissus falls in love with his own reflection, unable to recognize it as himself. He does not fall in love with another person. He falls in love with an image that gives him back exactly what he wants to see. That myth feels surprisingly modern in [ ]
Are you afraid of missing out on the next big thing? Afraid of being left standing on the platform when the train departs? Gold fever has gripped people throughout history. In 1848, 300,000 people flocked to California because GOLD had been found at Sutter’s Mill. Thousands of startups were created when the Internet became the [ ]
I have worked in many big companies as a freelancer and as a Scrum Master and one take-away from me has been how often there is mistrust between the business side and the development team . As a Scrum Master it has been my job to bring the sides together and remind them that we are [ ]
As a developer in the .NET world where LINQ is first class citizen, when going to JavaScript it seems that some methods are missing. There is even a few libraries that tries to remedy this, but if you are just looking to get the job done the most often used methods are right at hand. [ ]
One day when I was surfing cat videos professional relevant videos on Youtube I noticed a red progress-indicator: My first thought was I want this in my apps. How did they do it? If you lower the bandwidth a pattern emerges: Aha! When you click on a video, Youtube will start a request to [ ]
In my previous post in Danish I looked at how to perform asynchronous calls by using promises. Now the time has come to pick which library that fits the next project. There is a lot of variants and the spread is huge. One search for promise via the node package manager npmjs.org gave 1150 libraries [ ]
The last year we have been travelling a lot. We have visited Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, The Netherlands and Spain and even managed to stay a few months in our home country Denmark as well. In that time things have been crazy busy (but then again everybody seems busy these days to a point where [ ]
If you are looking for a new business model for your project? You have a great idea for a site, but no idea how to monitize it? You could of course be traditional and offer an ad-based freemium-model like spotify.com with a sidedish of premium service. That have been done many times, but it is [ ]
Less is more. That was my big lesson in 2010. I used to have clutter, mess, piles and heaps of stuff in my home and in my office. Now my things fit into a suitcase and a backpack. I can t buy things that I am not willing to carry with me every day, so [ ]