Having the data model defined by the business people.

All the things Zohar planned for 2018, but I didn’t had enough time to do them. And probably a million new things.

Coding a side project is easy. Turning it into a profitable business is the hardest part. A wrong decision can kill it.

Always use an editor with color syntax highlighting. About 20 years ago I spent 3 days and nights debugging something that was a simple typo error. Since then I always use an editor with color syntax highlighting.

Question: for my personal project I am looking into android aso (app store optimisation). Any of you has any good recommendations? Things that really work?

I started on my commodore 128D by typing over code from magazines. After that I started modifying them a little. Then I started making programs that drew little sketches on the screen using vb lineto commands. All this when I was 10years old.

Almost any internally tool developed by a non-dev who has read a book 'learning to program in 21 days' and now thinks he can code. Usually it is developer in excel and as years pass complete departments depend on it until the moment a consultant is hired to completely rewrite it without any specs.

Keep it simple, but at the same time try to build it so that any known or unknown future change can be easily implemented. Do not block your future.

Why do we need security? All we need is a little more trust in humanity :-)

Need that stress ball. Boss shouted to me yesterday. Less than 2 hours later he calls the team leader. The outcome of that call was the same as what I had suggested and for what I was shouted at. :-S

Living on the edge. Doing a new deployment on a Friday evening :-)

Best coworker is my cat. Always joining me at any hour of the day and she always agrees with me :-)

Do you ever have the feeling that you did 2 days of work in 1 day?

Why do people keep inventing new object serialisations when there is already JSON and XML? Why do people think that a custom format and parser would be better than an industry standard and a parser that has years of development improvements? :-S

How would you teach / punish these people?

My rubber duck does not let me move my hand away from the keyboard. Very productive :-)

I once inherited a project that had been outsourced for more than 6 months to a company at the other end of the world. Although the PM had almost daily contact with the developer, the project wasn't technically followed up.

I had already recommended code reviews 3 months before I inherited the project. But of course these had never happened.

The project contained all the nice-to-have features, but the core wasn't working. Loading the home page (with 20 records from a DB) took 15 minutes.

We then had roughly a month the get the project straight.

That feeling when you have successfully reduced the APK size from 29MB to 14MB
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