Richard Yang, a UX designer at Sony, shares his path from a guy with zero experience in design to a respected professional with a high paying job. Â Much like with any professional, in the past, present or future, it wasn’t an overnight success, but an inhuman amount of work and dedication, with plenty of failure.
Fergus Henderson, who has been a software engineer at Google for 10 years, published the PDF document entitled “Software Engineering at Google“, where he collects and describes key software engineering practices the company is using. It covers the following: software development – version control, build system, code review, testing, bug tracking, programming languages, debugging and profiling … Continue reading Software Engineering at Google
Slashdot runs a thread on which podcasts people are listening to and why (the crowd is mostly technical, so expect a certain one-sidedness (yup, that’s a real word). One that I’ve picked up from the comments is Sysadministrivia.com. If you want more ideas on what to subscribe to, have a look at this blog post … Continue reading Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Podcasts? And Why?
OpenSource.com runs this article on “What to know before jumping into a career as an open source lawyer“. Â Whether or not you are planning to take that path, the article has a few interesting links and quotes. Recently, at work, we’ve been trying to get a hold of a lawyer with Open Source experience. Â Just … Continue reading Open Source Lawyer as a Career
Composer is great as it is. Â It’s even greater with all those plugins that people have created for it. Â But for when I’ll need to write my own, I’m sure I’ll find this blog post quite handy – “A Composer plugin development environment“.