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.

Najaf Ali

May 1, 2017

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…

Najaf Ali

Jan 17, 2017

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…

Najaf Ali

Jan 17, 2017

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…

Najaf Ali

Jan 15, 2017

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…

Najaf Ali

Jul 1, 2016

HBS Internal: Brexit Strategy

This is our internal memo about Brexit, the effect it has had on our business and what we’re intending to do about it. It’s not intended for public consumption, but someone asked us to share it and there’s nothing highly sensitive in it, so I’ve posted it here.