Never accept a counter-offer

I guess we all have experienced a job change at least once. There might be different reasons to change the job; new opportunities, better salary, problems with coworkers and so on. I call it a trigger of a change. When it triggers, it’s hard to stop and there are two possible scenarios afterwards

Written on October 2, 2016
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Choosing an HTTP Status made easy.

One of the important design decisions while building a RESTful API is to decide which HTTP Status to return. In theory, this should be easy, because there is a clear specification which describes each and every HTTP Status, so all is needed is to go through the protocol and find a status appropriate for the specific resource.

Written on September 25, 2016
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Class loading in Java. Takeaways.

It is easy to find an answer to any kind of a question by searching it in web. I’m a strong believer that a good programmer tries to understand and analyze the problem, read documentation first before searching for an easy answer.

Written on September 14, 2016
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red-green-refactor development style

TDD is not only a software development process, it’s a mindset and development style. I’ve been practising TDD techniques for a while, but only recently started to follow red-green-refactor approach, which has been described by James Shore more than 10 years ago and is more than actual till now.

Written on September 8, 2016
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Natural testing with Kotlin

There are dozens of programming languages that are used to build a software which runs on JVM. Languages like Groovy, Scala and Clojure are the well known already and now the new cool kid Kotlin brings some more disruption into the Java world.

Written on August 31, 2016
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