from my work as a developer
Posts tagged knowledge spreading
weird or just different
Feb 23rd
Nice presentation about how people are different and why we should always be aware of that – for us it can be normal for other weird 
Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?
If you never had chance to watch TED presentations, you missed a lot and you should grab a few, I specially recommend that one about “rules” and “values” and any followed by that speaker
open code review
Jan 27th
I was too lazy to write something interesting or even not 
This is over! I want to share a great idea we* introduce in our office – Open Code Review.
What’s that? It’s a quite simple process to have some fun and learn how a code should looks like. We’re spending one hour analysing and commenting a class source code from a open source project. We always have two teams (conference room doesn’t allow more ) that are working with piece of paper – yes, the source code is printed out, no IDE’s, no fancy tools support. All you have is your brain, piece of paper and a pen.
It can be a bit odd at the beginning but it gives you lot of fun, when you are able to make real comments, crossing the code and so on. The whole exercise is about building team spirit and in mean time you can grab a knowledge from more experienced collogues – knowledge spreading
Till now we did two code reviews – the first one we called prototype to check if it’s make sense doing it. The second was the real exercise – with random attendees, with real code (maybe a bit to hard ), but all the reviewers were happy and they made lot of comments for future. So we have another good idea to introduce, stay tuned!
I forgot to mention that at the end all the comments and the code is put on our internal Wiki and announcement is sent to all office employees with some suggestions how to improve our work
* we – I used “we” because I’m member of Architect board in the office.
