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Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy? http://mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/are-your-programmers-working-hard-or.html Emulation in Chrome DevTools http://youtu.be/z7sTRdSpA04 22 Crazy Perks You Should Ask Your Boss For (spot the ones we already enjoy) http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131203162756-5799319-22-crazy-perks-you-should-ask-your-boss-for The Guardian responsive front-end open sourced https://github.com/guardian/frontend Performance Calendar: Reducing Domain Sharding http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2013/reducing-domain-sharding/ Rails 3.2.16 and 4.0.2 have been released! http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0_2_have_been_released/ github: Expanding context in diffs https://github.com/blog/1705-expanding-context-in-diffs Devops road at Tuenti https://vimeo.com/album/2565361/video/76750531 How to initiate a DevOps Transformation (Video) http://dev2ops.org/2013/12/how-to-initiate-a-devops-transformation-video/ Baruco 2013: Building a Culture of Quality, by Bryan Helmkamp http://youtu.be/Jsi1YTkXwxA

Why GNU grep is fast http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-August/019310.html CMS Trap http://hakunin.com/cms-trap

At my current job at devex and my previous job at Splendia we have a tradition of everyone sending an email with interesting links to the internal mailing list on every Friday. The idea is to spread the knowledge and give everyone something to read for the weekend, when there is plenty of time (ha!). I am going to start posting some of these here too, because I think they are good and also because I have nothing else to write about at the moment. Today it is only three links: How GitHub (no longer) Works - very good talk about growth and changes in a company. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-evolution Preparing the Netflix API for Deployment http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/11/preparing-netflix-api-for-deployment.html Realities of Performance Appraisal http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/11/09/realities-of-performance-appraisal/ 

I have confess that this was shorter than I would have thought or wished for, but Thursday is my last day at Splendia. Splendia is a very different company from my previous employer Softonic. While Softonic has all the perks and advantages of a big successful company with a large development team. Splendia is much smaller and when I arrived the whole team had just arrived too and was confronted with a "legacy" code base. The amount we managed to do in this year is just amazing and this wouldn't have been possible without the brilliant team. Fernando (the CTO when I started), recruited very well and made everyone fit in right away. We changed everything, from introducing scrum sprints, going from zero to 3000 unit tests, re-factoring big parts of the system, continuous integration, functional testing and everything else you expect from a modern Internet company. I gave a talk at WeLovePHP last weekend, which talked about all of this. I leave because of changes in the structure of the company and because I have the opportunity to join an exciting new project. More about this when I have started...

Today I gave a talk at WeLovePHP, which is a quarterly talk and workshop series organized by Softonic in Barcelona. They also do one about JavaScript. I can highly recommend them if you are interested in PHP, JavaScript or related topics. I talked about the processes and tools we are using at Splendia. There are no pictures in the slides … sorry.