Category: Blog
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How many more chat apps you can fit to Internet?
After a controversial and annoying week for Zoom and its users, I reminded myself to update the Mac app and saw this new interface. This is really nice so I have clear actions and my schedule, most probably connected to Google Calendar. It felt like a proper Video Meeting manager. However, the details are hidden…
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Unplatforming your Platform
As usual, Martin Fowler put a really nice piece about one of the most used buzzwords in today’s digital economy. It is a bit medium length read but with his real life examples, it will ring a lot of bells if you are working for a software company doing it as a service… The most…
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Great Engineering Culture is Customer Centric
As a senior individual contributor at organisation level, product development and engineering levels, I recently started to question the activities I’m producing with “who is my audience for this engineering piece?”. Of course these are always written on some docs, JIRA stories etc. but feeling of usefulness, feeling of creating value for the Customer starts…
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How Much Your Company Culture Costs Annually?
This is one the best points made so far in the company and especially in the startup culture topic. There is no denying that positive and productive employees move your company into more profitable stage but the heavy bro culture, hipster-drinker culture etc. are also putting some productive employees especially from different backgrounds and religious…
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C# To Cath Them All
Today I learned that Pokemon Go app is written using Unity and C# of course to support cross platform good performance experience… This really shows how far C# came along not only being a web app framework language but more of a generic purpose powerhouse. I have not previously used C# for mobile development but…
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Choosing Your Battles
This is really another good piece and and full of really great examples. I think I’ve been there in a couple of times when I was scaling the companies I’ve been working in all my career. The main problem here is realising when to choose your battles because there’s always going to be something in…
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Another Reason to Use Ad Blockers
I think it has been always an issue for me using ad blockers and being blocked by the website when they detect I’m using it… Now I have a huge believe that costing me $23 per month in bandwidth even though I have unlimited internet access… Even if this money doesn’t go out my pocket…
Mahmut Canga 