The programmer career middle-game

You’re a programmer about ten years into your career. You’ve worked on countless projects, watched teams do all the wrong things, watched teams do all the right things, and have been somewhere in middle most of the time. You still like making things, but are weary of…

Questions to ask in your developer job interview

Ask better questions, get more info about the job, make better decisions.

In job interviews, there comes a point when the interviewer asks you for questions. Most…

HBS Relational databases topic guide

Working with relational databases is part of the core skill set for full-stack developers at Happy Bear Software. It’s a topic that new developers get to last because it’s seen as “back-end” and perhaps more difficult than front-end development. While it may…

Why and how we do one-to-one meetings

One-to-one meetings are a standard at more or less any software development team. Some of them have strict formats and agenda’s, while others are open-ended. Some teams do them weekly, fortnightly, or even monthly. Some teams don’t do them at all.

Automated testing at Happy Bear Software

How you test your code is a highly contentious topic for developers. At our company we give developers full autonomy to decide on a testing strategy based on the details of the project they’re working on. But just like magazines and publications have a “house…