Hadi Hariri

Do you ever question why you do things? Whether it’s implementing a feature request, writing a blog post, giving a talk, do you question why you do it?
I’m sure you’ve probably heard of the 5 Whys, in which you repeatedly ask Why before trying to solve a problem. And since it seemsin our field, we have an obsession with all things Toyota (and martial parts), we’ve also adopted the technique, often with...

I’ve been working on a small application that eventually will be deployed, so I thought it might be a good time to try Docker. Looking at my options, I couldchoose AWS, Google App Engine or Azure. Seeing I have an active subscription for Azure, I’ve...

As professionals, as individuals, as humans, if we strive for self-improvement, we value feedback. Without it, it’s very hard to improve.
Just as much as we need constructive criticism to learnfrom our mistakes, we also need positive feedback. An occasional pat on the back, when honest, is something that helps us to keep going, to know we’re on the right path. It’s something we should...

Last week I ran into Kevlin at JavaZone’14, and we were chatting about a presentation he’d just given, titledMaking Steaks from Sacred Cows, which I highly recommend you watch.
In it, he discusses amongst other things, the habit of importing classes individually in the Java world. As someone that does C# development also, I find it kind of bizarre:...