rockstar programming

Be a master of your tool

Do development on a fast computer; Use a big TFT screen; Learn your (guitar) IDE.

Research new things

Learn new technology frameworks; Don't ask people for advice; Ask people for advice.

Drugs and Rock'n'Roll(but not everyday)

Don't drink too much coffee; Do not work more than 12 hours; Do not drink before job.

Take a rest

Go for a walk; Go to a pub on Friday with your

colleagues; Spend time with your family.

Dive in

Always dive down deeply Do extensive research before you start

coding; Always accept challenges; Spend more time in analyzing the

problem, you’ll need less time to fix it.

Open source it

Share your code and knowledge; Use github to share and find ideas; Share you solutions.

Re - Implement Everything

Write email clients, web libraries, music players, wikis, blogs, mailing lists, irc bots, news aggregator;

Write everything interesting; Enlarge your own experience.

DO NOT Re - Implement Everything

Use frameworks; Use libraries; Use other guys’ experience; Use patterns.

DO NOT make boring things

Life is too short to spend it for boring thing;

Find an interesting job; Be self motivated; Be really good, you have to be in love

with what you do; Try to make something really cool!

Simple Questions

Do you have passion and joy? Do you pride the thing which you do? Do you care about what you do? Do you become better than you were one

year (month, week, day) ago?

The only way to go fast is to go well

Learn

Read books; Participate in discussions; Take beer with colleagues; Participate in conferences.

Teach

You learn more by helping others; Be patient while helping; Understanding others’ problem in their

context, investigating on that and providing solutions; will make you much more educated than before.

Find good mentors

Join Big company; Join small startup; Join Open Source project; Work with young professionals; Work with strong programming heroes.

Git hub it

Share your code at github; Contribute to projects that you use; Ask other people for a review; Make review of other people’s code.

KISS

Keep It Simple and Short

Don’t compare yourself with others

Your comparison of yourself with others will only result in evolution of negative feelings and un-healthy competition;

Know your strengths and weaknesses.

BE effective

Have your own to-do list for the day. Do one thing at a time. Do it right. Don’t finish something until it’s

completely done. Better late than sorry, BUT better sorry

than never.

Questions?

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