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The false Scrum future

> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton I agree with Phil, I'd also like to add estimation to this list. Of the three it's the hardest as you cannot ever solve the problem due to

Doing more with less

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the programming world it seems very popular to predict potential ceilings of projects or even engineers due to the languages/frameworks that are utilized as though they are the be all and end all indicator of future success. It's a viewpoint that is both propagated by

Don't hold back your Ruby

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the first article [https://www.owenconvey.com/dont-hold-back-your-programming/] of this series we looked at general must read programming books and in the second [https://www.owenconvey.com/dont-hold-back-your-java/] we took a look at the Java world. Now to step up to the plate is one of my favourite

Don't hold back your Java

In the last article [https://www.owenconvey.com/dont-hold-back-your-programming/] we looked at the best books to improve your knowledge of the core concepts of programming. This time we are specifically going to look at the best Java books (in my humble opinion) that give not only juniors a great base

Don't hold back your programming

When people ask how to improve their programming skills invariably they are told to write more code, to dive into open source projects or to build a replica of a well known piece of functionality. All of those tips are great but at the same time they can reinforce bad