This article is based on the lecture of Sergey Alexandrov at the “Съесть собаку” meetup. What is the problem? If you compare a program to a living organism, a bug in it would qualify as a disease. The occurrence of the ‘disease’ may be affected by a number of factors and a specific environment, especially

At a certain development stage many companies realize that human resources may be found not only in labor market, but can also be raised internally. That is how internship programs emerge. In a number of organizations such programs have turned into internal educational institutions, others didn’t quite adapt the idea of this whole thing. In

Agile approach to development has distinguished many instruments helping to make work more predictable and effective. On the other hand, Agile has brought to the world methodologies that use these instruments according to certain patterns. They are obviously great although not sufficiently flexible. The thing is that the tools can be used outside the pattern

We all like buying high quality products. We all believe that we make high quality products in our job. And if this is easy to check the quality of a material thing – it somehow seems to be a problem to verify the quality of a product that was made by a programmer. First of

Microsoft’s Silverlight was initially a competitor to Adobe’s Flash technology. This is a rich internet application framework for developing web applications with tight developer control over user interface, allowing for complex, desktop-like applications. They can also provide powerful back-end data interactivity and often allow development of stand-alone, offline “Smart Apps” which can pre-cache data, and