Mensur Duraković

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Code reviews: a 5-step guide on how to make your colleagues hate you

Code reviews: a 5-step guide on how to make your colleagues hate you

When done correctly, code reviews can be a great way to prevent bugs, improve code quality, and spread business and technical knowledge through the development team. Code review is a skill that takes time to learn from both perspectives, reviewing the code and creating reviewable code. However, code reviews can

Unpleasant situations: 50 professional ways to tell someone to go to hell

Unpleasant situations: 50 professional ways to tell someone to go to hell

Many people ask me how to communicate in a nice, polite, and professional manner when the situation or circumstances are not pleasant or comfortable. Have you ever wanted to tell a coworker that it is his or her problem, not yours? To inform your project manager that you are wasting

The most common laws and principles of software development

The most common laws and principles of software development

Since my first day at work as a software developer, I have noticed some of the laws and principles are occurring more often than others. Here is a list of my 7 favorite ones: 1. Murphy’s law - Anything that can go wrong will go wrong When I was

7 tips for good Slack etiquette

7 tips for good Slack etiquette

I think about Slack as a work-related Sims game, we just don’t have 3D characters/avatars (yet). A bunch of people gathers there 5 days a week, 8 hours per day working on a common goal. So it is pretty much necessary to behave well and not disturb your

A practical guide for comments in the code

A practical guide for comments in the code

One of the most discussed things in programming is comments in the code. From what I saw in practice there are 3 kinds of developers: * developers who think that comments are a ”must-have” in the code * developers who are against comments in the code * developers who think about comments as