Carlos Betancourt Carrero

Carlos Betancourt Carrero

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My Manager's README

Inspired by Edgar’s fantastic post and other Engineering Managers, I’m following the same principle to outline my views for existing and new team contributors.

Effective onboarding is crucial to our industry. New joiners come with a fresh mind, and, in the first few days of a new job, things can go really fast and people can get lost easily. Providing an easy and digestible way for them to know you as their manager, to know your leadership style(s), values, communication channels, and, more importantly, your expectations with them, is key for successful onboarding.

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Concurrency in JavaScript

A great article written by Thibault Imbert about responsive JavaScript programming using Web Workers and browser threads.

The Sausage Principle

If you love something, never find out how it’s made.

Coderwall will go open source

I’m looking forward to check the bowels of this great product.

Reactive programming in JavaScript

The folks from Silk have develop a nice library that brings some of the goodies of reactive programming to JavaScript.

TDD is dead. Long live testing.

Despite David’s point of view, I still think that TDD can lead you to write better and quality software.

The McDonald's Theory

Thanks to Manuel for this useful link.

Dynamically load configuration tokens using Ruby's metaprogramming magic

This was originally posted by me on Coderwall.

So, let’s say you need to use tokens in your app to access a third-party API (like Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook).

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