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

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 [http://www.manning.com/logan/]

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+

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

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

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

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 [http://www.amazon.com/Project-Guide-Design-experience-designers/dp/0321815386/ref=dp_ob_title_bk]

Pitfalls of startup

People don't share the same vision and passion In a normal company, even if people don't share the same vision, they still can execute the plan and contribute value. For a startup (with limited resources) to proceed (or for a normal company that wants to be