At any point in time, one is leading or being led by someone. Everyone is a leader within a context. You might be led by a leader in your company. Mostly because you are the bottom of the organization. However, when you are at home, you lead your family. If you are a wife, you… Continue reading Dear Leaders
New year alway comes. I guarantee you. Welcome to another Lunar New Year. Everyone makes wishes. They wish for themselves, for their family, for their relatives. Everyone has good intention. Yes! I do. I make wishes every new year. Actually, some years ago, I had made vows. Kind of I vowed I will quite smoking… Continue reading Oh New Year, Again! Let’s Make Wishes
Recently I have created website: That Fundamentals that I will focus most of my writing. Currently the site is under construction. It is more of experience of trying new thing. And it will become the main portal of mine. what happens to this blog? Well, nothing, It will be running as it is since it is… Continue reading Welcome to the That Fundamentals
For the past of 1-2 years, my life philosophy has changed. Let’s forget about the past of how i was. I will focus on the present and the future I want to be: VALUE and OUTPUT Let’s talk about VALUE. It came from this valuable statement of Jim Rohn: We get paid for bringing value to… Continue reading Value and output
I had a chance to attend the first Scrum Gathering 2015 in Vietnam. It was the first time of many things – more detail later. The event was about Agile/Scrum. Therefore, before I talk about my personal impression and feeling, you should clearly state about my background of Agile/Scrum: NOT MUCH I have been coding… Continue reading Scrum Gathering 2015
Recently I did many interviews for position of both Jr. and Sr. Developers. Here, I will not talk about the interview itself, rather the lessons I learn from those interviews. First, let’s talk about the context: I am focusing on the technical aspects. And: I know those candidates are doing very good job at their… Continue reading Step back and think again: How much do you know about languages you are using?
Over the last month, I had the pleasure to interview many candidates for position of both Junior and Senior developer. Those interviews taught me a lot. But first, let talk about the good news. We gave many good offers to many good developers. They are smart, enthusiasm, very good programming skills. We had guy that… Continue reading Some thoughts after the month of interviews
YOU HAVE TO LOVE AND RESPECT YOUR JOB Just that simple! But why? why do you teach them the things that should be a common sense/ common knowledge? Because, I started to realize that NOT many people actually love their job, or even respect the job they are doing. Usually I heard this when asking… Continue reading What will I teach my children about the job?
These days, my company is doing a lot of interviews for both Junior and Senior Developers. Most of the Juniors are happy to do the basic programming (just some for loop test) and the IQ Test. Of course, there were some who refused and just left. The thing that got my attention is not the… Continue reading Should you give the IQ (Logical) Test for Sr. Developer Candidates?
Recently, I reviewed code from a candidate. He wrote a simple Web Application using WebApi. And he used Unity as IoC Container. And this is part of the code I asked him the question My question to him: What is wrong with that code? And his answer: Due to from best practice from this post:… Continue reading Unity Container: What was wrong with this code?
Thai Anh Duc 