One of our roundtable topics of our last French Riviera Craftsmanship Meetup was about collecting things that you shouldn't do to your newcomers as a manager. If you are just a developer, still, you shouldn't do them, but it is less likely anyway.

"In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage." - said Cyrus the king of Persia.

I like the books and most of the videos created by Uncle Bob. Maybe sometimes they are a bit too simplistic, but they help to provide a better understanding of how you should write good quality code. And if you find that a topic is not deeply analyzed enough, you can still explore it later on your own.

If you have been reading my posts for some time, I'm sure you noticed that I completely redesigned it and I gave my blog a more fresh look.

Are you the type of person who doesn't pay attention to details? Start using C++. It will give the missing discipline if there is any chance. If you don't pay attention to details, C++ will teach you to do it, or you will leave this language pretty soon. It simply does not tolerate ignorance and laziness. It will hit back when you expect it the least with bloating memory leaks and dramatic core dumps.

We are living in a world where anywhere you turn, someone will bark in your face how successful he or she is. How much he likes his life and that if you are not a zillionaire by the age of 30 you are nothing but a douchebag. Okay, this might sound like a little bit of exaggeration, but not that much to be honest.

In my new team we are working on several guidelines, rules and process improvements. Why do we think these are so important? If things are well documented, it's easier for a newcomer to start delivering value. It reduces the possibilities to err for everyone. It removes lots of possibilities for arguments. And we all know that one cannot win an argument, we should avoid them at all costs.

At last month's Riviera Craftsmanship meetup the eternal question came up. Not about the meaning of life, but the first language we should learn. I mean the first programming language.

My math teacher in high school told us once that there is no worse than a math teacher who doesn't care about anything but math. I think she made an important point not only for math teachers but for every human being.

Just like seniors but most probably they already read at least a few of them... I like reading. I wouldn't say I always liked to, even though I had some peaks already in elementary school when in a short amount of time I read long novels that I found interesting. Later I had such a period during high school too, but between these times I barely read books - I did read a lot of car magazines nonetheless. But since about university second grade I have read a lot and I have bought a lot of books - I've been investing in myself.