Musings on life and programming

Month: November 2016

Excerpts from Steve Jobs

Post author By dimitry
Post date November 7, 2016

I started reading biographies a few years ago with Peter the Great: A Biography. My motivation to plow through 700+ page tomes was primairly fuelled by a love for history. When I finished that book it occurred to me that the Tsar’s life was more than a history lesson, it was a lesson on living as […]

Managing

How to Motivate and Retain Programmers

Post author By dimitry
Post date November 5, 2016

In the tech industry, high turnover rates for programmers are all too common, and wildly detrimental to a company’s profitability. This phenomenon is especially problematic for companies in less subjectively interesting domains such as B2B software development. As people come and go, mounting technical debt and recruiting costs cripple the bottom line. How can a company […]