Inheritance is a concept that is easily understood because the word itself has a lot of context to it. Inheritance can be best understood by this phrase “If your parents are Filipino, you would also be Filipino”. Characteristics and traits of parents are inherited downward to children who may or may not use them. Composition…

Hi _________, what is it exactly that you do? What’s your day to day responsibility? I’d love to automate you and make your life easier. Eventually making mine a lot easier 🙂

Automation is the greatest tool we humans can use to escape our oppressive corporate overlords. I continually strive for the day that a never tiring machine (or automata) can take over parts of my daily tasks. I understand that there is great fear attached to automation. Just imagine the amount of humans that’s going to…

If you ever get the feeling that there’s just not enough time to finish everything assigned for you today. Be reminded that Hannibal son of Barca, more infamously known as Hannibal the Annihilator murdered 70,000 Roman soldiers during the battle of Cannae while only losing 6,000 men, all in one day. This was of course…

Stand up meetings are perfect for developers since we all know developers hate standing up for anything. Since stand up meetings encourage attendees to be concise with their updates, why don’t we start doing treadmill meetings to provide more encouragement. This would give the pigs a good jump start and keep their minds active all…

The same reason it’s easier to tell someone what NOT to do.

Nuff said. Good work is not a function of longer working hours. It’s actually influenced by the right amount of working hours. The challenge of having to focus all your energy to a limited amount of time is the real secret of efficiency. If you are constantly working more hours than expected and feel that…

I spent the long vacation to ponder on things that might actually be useful when I get back to work. I set my mind on the biggest question our current software development team is facing but has not yet addressed fully. As much as I would like to say that this is a work of…

As cowboy as this may sound, I would like leave all of you a final message before I move on to the next town (I heard they are in need of a smart ass). So to all of you who I have spent a short yet significant part of my life with, REACH FOR THE…

Why Polymorphism Deserves a Second Article There are a number of reasons why things have a sequel. Books are written in multiple parts because sometimes it just takes too long for the next book to be written. Movies usually have a part 2, 3 or even a part 6 because they really hit it big…