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A winning strategy to identify great developers and build a capable team.

Many enthusiastic programmers like doing their own personal programming projects in their free time. Here's a collection of useful recommendations and tips on how to organize that work, efficiently use the available time, avoid common obstacles and keep a strong motivation throughout the project.

Discussing the advantages and benefits of bringing foreign developers into a team and the value of building diverse and multicultural software teams.

Perfectionism is a known character trait found in many programmers. This quality when overdeveloped becomes a source of depression and diminished productivity. This discussion analyzes this phenomenon, identifies its origin and suggests treatment techniques to overcome this problem.

Accumulating and maintaining project knowledge is one of the key activities in software development practice. Even so, many teams lack here any strategy and neglect this task altogether which has dramatic consequences. Introducing suggestions on how to approach project knowledge management.

Development of complex web frontends in teams can represent a challenge due to HTML, CSS and JavaScript missing support for modularization. Ideas and suggestions on how to modularize frontend work to prepare it for split development in a team.

Basic concepts of user interface design and usability for hardcore programmers. A first-time introduction into the matters most programmers know nothing about.

ASP.NET WebForms applications share similar architectural decisions and follow same design patterns. ASP.NET MVC brings a significant change of paradigm. Analysis of options and challenges faced with migration of these design solutions to ASP.NET MVC.

Best programming practices and coding techniques that will help you write clean and maintainable code, reduce the potential for bugs, minimize maintenance efforts and keep high overall quality of your projects.