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Evidence-Based Scheduling (EBS) is one of the most revolutionary and mindblowing features of project management software today. Joel Spolsky, the inventor of EBS, describes it best:

In this interview with Kerri Miller, Lead Software Engineer at LivingSocial, we discuss how to hire and interview developers. We typically don’t get trained on interviewing and we’ve all experienced the haphazard approaches of those new to it – poor organization,...

The importance of eating together has long been recognized in positive child development and strengthening family bonds. Eating together is a great equalizer and it can be a good way to help form better and more valuable relationships amongst teams of co-workers too.

The weird and wonderful bugs that get thrown up when real users first start using your code never ceases to amaze. There’s always some odd edge case that had been overlooked, despite you think about little else for several weeks. We’ve been through this many times and...

9 Code Review Tips For everyone:

Integration tests check whether your application works and presents properly to a customer. They seek to verify your performance, reliability and of course, functional requirements. Integration tests should be run against any of your developer, staging and production...

Congratulations! You’ve written something at work that is amazing and you want to share it with the world! This guide covers three key areas that you should consider before making the leap: Why, when and how to do it.

So you want to run your own Hackathon? Great! Hackathons are a good way to meet and exchange ideas with fellow developers and creative team. They provide attendees with a boot camp style of learning and making something in just a few hours or days. They also push...

In typical organizational groupings, designers and developers often find themselves in separate teams. Also, a common misperception of the people in these roles is that they are different — developers are logical, analytical, left-brainers whilst designers are the...