IT và hông IT

Có bữa ngồi cafe, mình nghe 2 bạn nói chuyện với nhau. 1 bạn nói tiếng Anh như gió, trang điểm rất dịu dàng, giọng ngọt ngào và sắc sảo. Còn anh kia thì luống tuổi, nói tiếng Anh sơ sơ, bận đồ đóng thùng nghiêm chỉnh. Bạn sắc sảo

Low cost Heroku with Dokku

Heroku is great and while I always recommend my clients to use it and bear the cost, I sometimes need to have an alternative that is cheaper and - more importantly - has the same ease of use as Heroku (read: git push to deploy) Here comes Dokku (based on

It was fun, it is fun and it shall be fun

Actually by it I meant "IT" :) I was recently back to professional programming (read: code for food) and the experience was memorable. I joined this team partly because they are in Hanoi (the place I don't really want to live but love to explore). The first

On choosing tools

But also whatever language partisanship I had is gone, and won’t come back in the guise of a new favorite language. This sentence is worth pointing out as a good attitude. I think the healthiest place to be is using tools you like, but able to appreciate the good

Quan trọng là ca sĩ chứ không phải micro

Mình vừa đọc 1 topic hỏi về "công cụ để phân việc cho nhân viên", trong đó mọi người giới thiệu khoảng vài chục cái tool, từ tool công ty mình vừa làm, đến các tool dùng để quản lí dự án như Redmine, ActiveCollab hoặc ngay cả

On the shiny new things

On HackerNews, someone asked why the news release of Django receives less fanfare than say Rails and this is my favorite comment I'm probably going to offend some people with my phrasing, but the Django community is a little less culty/fanboyish than Node's. It'

Make it work

Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. source: Joe Armstrong

On Bootstrap

Bootstrap raised the lowest common denominator from a 2 to about 35. You can still put together a horrid UI with bad spacing and mismatched fonts, but you have to go out of your way to get UI quality below 20. If you have the skills to write 90+ UIs

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Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture

The economist who helped Walt Disney's theme park dream become what it is today[1] said that the most important thing he learned through it all was the profound difference between a "no, because" person and a "yes, if" person. If you ask many

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Opensource != secured

Open source doesn't imply trustworthiness and it's a very dangerous assumption to make. Any open source system can be screwed with in a variety of ways. The simplest and most effective option is to publish both the source and the binaries, but built latter from the

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XP

Chapter 10, which begins on page 53, lays out the 12 practices that caused our industry to erupt into controversy; and spawned a revolution that has changed everything about the way we write software. Those practices are: The Planning Game: Nowadays known as SCRUM. The idea that software is produced

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Feature versus requirement

One of the most common mistakes made on a project is to seize on a feature and call it a requirement without first understanding the problem and the expectations around a solution source