Category: Thoughts

At Threeplicate we recently automated a ton of things that we used to do manually until a few weeks ago. They’re all related to software development, but after all that’s what we do. We always had the mandatory continuous integration builds for all our projects, managed by the excellent Team City, and we’ve always been…

The migration from PCs to alternative computing devices has already started in the consumer market. With the gradual increase in availability of web applications that allow you to do pretty much anything you want, it’s appropriate to imagine a world without powerful PCs on every desk (or lap). Instead, it’s very likely we’ll see a…

There is an interesting guest post by Patrick McKenzie on the Fog Creek blog about web marketing. Patrick is some kind of SEO and web marketing legend, so the post is highly recommended to all IT entrepreneurs. Besides the practical advice he wrote, one thing really struck me. Patrick summarized it in one single mind-blowing…

Being a good developer has nothing to do with programming languages, frameworks, design patterns or coding style. It all comes down to (in this specific order of importance): being autonomous having decent communication skills (read: a bit better than cavemen’s) being quite a nitpicker knowing that the skull’s size is limited. Developers must be able…