These 6 Things I Learned at CodeMash Will Shock You!
#6 - You Won't Believe this Manager's Trick for Hiring Developers!
How to Hire Programmers You’ll Want as Teammates
by Scott Drake
Personality Differences in programmers:
- Innovative or Pragmatic
- Technology Control: Tight, Negotiable, Loose
- Architecture Control: Tight, Negotiable, Loose
- Doer or Planner
- Business-oriented or Technical-oriented
- Clear or Concise
- High-level or Low-level
- Social or Solitary
Work these personality types into the job description, it will help candidates self select for you
Awesome tips on defining your company's culture
#5 - Learn why Jon Skeet HATES C#!!!
Abusing C# More
by John Skeet
Demo time!
PS: What's a finalizer?
#4 - The SECRET REASON Developers are Stressed!
The Mindful Developer: The Neuroscience of Successful Software Developers - Matthew Renze
by Matthew Renze
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Overcoming the Lizard Brain - how survival instincts cause problems for us in the modern world.
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Develop a mind like water, can recover from a rock dropped in. Creates waves, but eventually goes back to being still.
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Meditation rewires the brain.
PS: Vipassana Meditation (Indian Technique) course: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index
#3 - This simple XML trick will catch all of your porn habits!
A technical tour of real-world web application vulnerabilities
by Justin Collins
#3 - This simple XML trick will catch all of your porn habits!
#2 - The Unit Test Strategy that Has Everyone Worried
ptest some_list: list do
reversed = my_reverse(some_list)
assert length(reversed) == length(some_list)
end
Property Testing - Don’t write tests. Generate them!
by Chris Keathley
Focus on defining behaviors, rather than specific test cases
#1 - 4 Jaw-Dropping Programming Languages
Incredibly Strange Programing Languages
by Craig Stuntz
#1 - 4 Jaw-Dropping Programming Languages
More info on TLA: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/tla.html
More info PSharp: https://github.com/p-org/PSharp/