developerjackHowdy weekly readers!
Hopefully you’re enjoying your Aussie long weekend!
This week I have an quirky assortment of links including an excellent thought provoking conference presentation recording.
8 ‘Slack Hacks’ for Reducing Information Anxiety
Slack recently closed a $250m funding round, proving that investors see it has a strong future as the communications platform for teams and companies. If you’re anything like me you’ve got a healthy collection of slack teams you’ve been invited to (at last count I was at twenty something). So here are some helpful tips that I’ve used to stay on top of the content without the associated alert fatigue that comes with asynchronous communication.
Read the post.Building account systems
More security – this time looking at a wise todo list if you’re building any identity management features for your product (chances are – you are).
Read the post.Project management: A surefire way to kill your software product
This post explores project vs product management and the ramifications on what teams produce as a result. The nuance is in the ownership and to me the difference is night and day. If you’re still project managing your features you might want to use this as a wake up call ;).
Read the post.RubyConf 2015 – How to Crash an Airplane
Trigger warning, if you’re not a fan of flying perhaps don’t watch this talk. I am however a fan of flying and found that Nickolas Means’ presentation was a fantastic analogy for egos and team work in engineering.
Read the post.Upcoming hack4 refugees!
I’ve mentioned Hack4Refugees before, and now registration is open! Head on over and register and join me hacking at the end of October!
Until next week!
@developerjack
