Do you know what’s the best study method? I’ve done some research on the subject and it turns out that I didn’t know, and probably most people don’t either. Although my research is still incomplete, I think it’s already worthwhile to share my findings. I hope IT professionals in my network will be interested in effective learning, because people in this profession have to study a lot. Besides that this content could be also beneficial to students or parents with school kids. ...

Books related to programming or Software Engineering can be divided into two categories: the ones that are outdated shortly after printing and those which are still valuable after decades. In this article I would like to present you books that will help you skill up at Software Engineering. I once heard that a good book is like accomplishing a software project. In my opinion some of the books I’ve listed below are worth more than several projects. ...

This text is an introduction to TDD that shows a step-by-step attempt to solve a real programming task - the Coding Challenge #12 - Build Your Own URL Shortener. In short, we will build a web application that accepts a custom url under /api/shorten?url=<url>. Such a call will return a short key that can be used later when the user browses to /<key>. This action will redirect the user to the original <url>. ...