Autor: Christian

Version control is a very useful thing that should be part of every developer daily work. If you find someone not using any version control, show that person this anecdote.

The way of Testivus is a funny collection of master/apprentice style dialogs about the merits of unit testing. It’s fun and might help you get your colleagues to take a look into writing tests. ;)

The weekend is close, so here’s something to do with your free time. ;) Read up on your favorite programming language from this list of free programming books.

If you, like me, don’t know your way around the design-ish side of things these 9 tips for a halway decent design by David Kadavy might come in handy. Now I only hope that I’ll remember them for my next attempt at creating a nice site.

Over thirteen years ago the agile manifesto was created. Which is summarized in these four statements (from the afore mentioned page): Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan It is also explicitly stated that the points on the right are still…

A couple of days ago I came across this episode on the Debug podcast on sexism in the tech field. It’s an open and honest conversation. I highly recommend listening to it.

Think about the last discussion you had. Try to remember the details. Now head over to this collection of rhetorical tricks on Information is Beautiful and see how many you and your discussion partner used. Surprised? I was.

Zip archives are pretty convenient. Wouldn’t it be great if you could enable users of your site to add selective files to an archive and then upload them? With JSZip you can do that and much more. Packing, unpacking, adding and removing files…

If you have built websites based on Twitters bootstrap then you should definitely take a look at BootSnip. It’s a collection of very useful elements covered by the MIT license created by Maksim Surguy..