mlapshin
November 19, 2015
Self-development
Hi friends, Today I am going to tell you about your biggest enemy which probably you do not even care about. Everyone suffers from it. Again I will mention that the great Soft Skills book by John Sonmez told me about this hidden foe. John…
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mlapshin
October 28, 2015
Eclipse, Programming
Eclipse, programming
Hi guys! Today I would like to share my experience on how to survive the situation when you are developing under Eclipse and have a LOT of plugins. For example, in my current project we have more than 1000 plugins. We…
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mlapshin
October 25, 2015
Java, Programming
How-To, Java, lambda
Hi guys! Do you still not use Lambdas in Java? Today I will show you how event-based projects can benefit from them. Nice small listeners Lambdas could be considered as a handy replacement for anonymous classes. Vaadin is an event-based framework. So, before Java…
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mlapshin
October 15, 2015
Self-development
Pomodoro, productivity, self-development
Hi guys! Today I want to share my experience on how I considerably increased my productivity. I think, this is not the last time when I say thanks to the great Soft Skills book by John Sonmez for a good idea. A…
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mlapshin
October 9, 2015
Self-development
book, review, self-development
Recently I posted a list of books that are most recommended to read by famous and highly successful people. I started reading one of them: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. What is interesting about this book, it was written almost a…
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mlapshin
October 5, 2015
Programming, Reading
Guice, Java, programming, reading
My post is inspired by an article of Miško Hevery, who works for Google and coaches Googlers to maintain the high level of automated testing culture. The article contains concentrated Miško’s experience and gives clear advice how to write testable code. I think, every…
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mlapshin
September 30, 2015
Book, Reading
book, self-development
Hi guys! I read a lot and always looking for books that deserve to be read. Usually I have a good portion of fresh books uploaded into my reader, but sometimes I am short of them. Recently I wrote about a…
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mlapshin
September 27, 2015
Scrum
PSM, PSPO, quiz, Scrum
Aloha! Scrum helps a lot when your team consists of not more than 9 developers. But in the real life most of the projects involve more people. In this situation the standard Scrum cannot be applied and should be adopted to…
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mlapshin
September 21, 2015
Book, Review
book, review
Hi guys! I have always loved reading, but did not read as much as I want. Fortunately, when I bought an e-ink reader and started getting to work by the metro, I got at least one hour of reading every…
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mlapshin
September 14, 2015
Scrum
PSM, PSPO, quiz, Scrum
When I was preparing to the PSM I Assessment, I used the open Scrum.org quizzes which are pretty good. They contain questions that could be asked in the real assessment and have explanations. However, they have a couple of flaws. There…
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