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jQuery is not dead! I’d love to say it is, but it is alive and kicking. Unfortunately, its existence hit the team I’m currently working with, and it hit pretty hard. We had this admin panel built on an older version of the Metronic theme, and the bootstrap-datetimepicker the theme used was giving us headaches. It would randomly reset to 12/31/1899 when losing focus. We were using UTC time and so our dates had this format DD/MM/YYYY HH:ii UTC.

While working as a software developer I’ve been more or less accused of: “focusing too much on quality”, “polishing too much”, “overanalysing”, “not letting work go”, or “lacking in commitment”. As you can tell, by reading the previous sentence, the level of crap in the statements tends to rise towards the end, culminating with crap project managers utter after 4 failed sprints — hail SCRUM! I ended up calling myself a software over-engineer, to set expectations from the start.

I was talking to a developer, over lunch, about some of the struggles the team I’m currently with is facing. I was telling him about the long hours we had to spend to deliver some work to the client, our code quality issues and the overall experience level of the team. His answer: Well, that’s because you don’t do sprints and you don’t do SCRUM. Let’s set this straight. Imagine your non-delivering, junior-riddled, no-BA, requirements-lacking, yes-sir-managed team is a fat person.

In this episode I’m talking about the attitude we, as experienced professionals should have towards the people who want to learn web development. It’s also short valuable lesson for aspiring web developers. I recently started researching the problems people have when trying to get into web development. I’m working on my first online course which is called “1-2-3 Web Development” and it will help people who want to get into web development establish what they want to do, what technologies should they learn and how to do it.

It seems that since Christmas Eve 2016 I’ve been running form one problem to the next. In this episode I go over the issues I had with my 15 inch retina MacBook Pro, how I tried to fix it and ho I ended up not fixing it. Luckily, I still have my old MacBook Air so I’m not completely without a laptop, but its performance is way lower than that of my main machine.

This article is just a strand of random thoughts put together to look like they make sense. The way we implement automation and the ways in which we use machine learning and artificial intelligence must always reflect our race’s best interests. It’s all over the Internet. Some of us are yelling, others are screaming, and others are are #justsaying, but a lot of us are thinking about it. Automation is bad!

If you’re a Node.js developer and your application hasn’t crashed yet, because of some uncaught exception, you’re an amateur. I mean it, you’re probably just getting past “Hello world!”. But keep reading, it’s good to be well prepared for the future. One thing developers face when working with Node.js is uncaught exceptions that kill the process. In this short article I want to give you a quick and easy strategy for handling uncaught exceptions.

In a previous article I wrote about my decision to specialise. I gave a bit of information into the process, what each option brings to the table and how to stay on top of things. But while thinking about the article, I realised I would be limiting my reach and my audience if I would just leave it as plain text. So I decided to record a full episode on the topic and try to approach it from a similar angle, while bringing some extra value, thanks to the clarity I gained after writing the article.

Finally got your migration budget approved? Is that Angular vs. React vs. Vue giving you headaches? Not sure whether it’s worth moving to Node.js microservices, because your team already knows JavaScript or if you should have them learn Go? Wondering what options you have, to migrate your existing product to a new framework? These are all valid questions anyone should ask when planning to rewrite their application/product. If you’re going shopping for new tech, here are two options you can use, to migrate your existing application to a new framework.

If you’ve been around here for a while, you know I love audio/video content. I consume videos and podcasts and audiobooks on a daily basis. Last week I was watching Gary Vaynerchuck at Brand Minds Singapore, talking about the importance of audio for the thousandth time. I thought long and hard about how I could use audio to enhance this blog. The first thing that came to mind was to upload audio versions of the articles.