6 reasons why entrepreneurs won’t profit from more subsidies

by Alek Jankowski and Peter Horsten on 28th May 2013

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Entrepreneurs always need money, on the other hand the availability of public funded money might kill the real entrepreneurship as well. Real entrepreneurship starts in “survival mode”, having just enough money to build your solution and not to starve. Anyhow, the European Union tries to stimulate clever investments. But the whole system to manage this is becoming rather inefficient. Have you heard of a Project “Intelligent development of Poland 2014-2020”? We’d rather call it, “Lets add layers and layers of regulations on top of old regulations in order to spend more money on the same inefficient things as in the past”. The questions is to what extend this will really support the entrepreneurs who could really use this money. Read the full article →

Express names in code: Bad vs Clean

by Mateusz Roszczak May 17, 2013 Best practices
Beginner programmers always spend a lot of time on learning a programming language, code syntax, technology and tools. They think, if  they master the craft of technologies, they will become good programmers. However, object programming is not about mastering the tools, it is about creating a solution to a problem in a particular domain and to do it in cooperation with [...]
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Better your code with Dependency Injection

by Paweł Ogrodowczyk March 26, 2013 Agile software development
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Dependency Injection – everybody’s doing it! It helps you write flexible, loosely coupled, reusable, testable and maintainable code. But fancy keywords aside, are you sure you know how to use it to reap all the benefits? Let’s have a look at a couple of tips on how you can use DI to help you write [...]
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6 more things C# developers should (not) do

by Pawel Bejger January 30, 2013 C#
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For all wondering what are the things a C# developer should and should not do. As the continuation of my previous post 8 Most common mistakes C# developers make I decided to write another article about the things C# developers should always be aware of.
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Top 9 qualities of clean code

by Pawel Bejger January 21, 2013 Architecture
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How often do you express your disbelief when browsing through someone’s code saying out loud “Omg, that’s real spaghetti code…” ? Probably quite often. And how sure are you that no one thought the same when working with your code? In other words, how sure are you that your code is clean? The truth is [...]
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8 Most common mistakes C# developers make

by Pawel Bejger January 7, 2013 C#
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While working with (young) C# programmers I’ve noticed that some mistakes are being repeated by almost every one of them. These are mostly the mistakes, which once you point them, are quite easy to remember. However, if a developer is not aware of them, they can cause many problems with the efficiency and quality of [...]
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How well does Microsoft support HTML5 knowing IE sucks?

by Marcin Dembowski December 24, 2012 Microsoft
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We blogged about HTML5 throughout this year with big enthusiasm, but also from time to time with a dose of skepticism  (see, see). Well, it’s December now and what have you learned about it?  Do we have any other opportunity to learn? Did something change ? Or should we just conclude it sucks and didn’t [...]
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How to switch your career to IT?

by Magdalena Skowrońska November 7, 2012 HRM
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Should you consider a career switch? Lately during job fairs, we’ve met a lot of experienced developers, but also quite a large group of people aspiring to become one. No wonder, the IT industry is currently booming and attracts workers offering outstanding career opportunities. What’s more is that in the Western World the companies are [...]
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Silicon Valley not everybody’s Holy Grail

by Peter Horsten November 6, 2012 Best practices
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About a week ago I returned from a very intensive and inspirational trip to the USA. On Wednesday October 17, 2012, an economic mission organised by the Pomeranian region/Gdansk government traveled to the US for a 12 day visit including Silicon Valley, Seattle and Chicago. A group of 11 companies and representatives of the regional [...]
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Remote ASP.NET Model Validation with generic version of AddModelError

by Pawel Olesiejuk October 29, 2012 Architecture
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Validation is an extremely important part of a software system. It prevents users from inserting incorrect data. Although it seems to be a piece of cake, it’s not. It’s hard to keep validation logic separated from business logic. This problem, as almost all of known to developeres problems, has as many solutions as there are [...]
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