Honza Široký
CTO at Mews, sportsman (basketball, streetball, squash, bike, swimming), energy-drink lover, currently on-hold due to high blood pressure.
Manage people like a boss: how to guarantee fair salaries
It is duty of a manager to treat everyone fairly and in timely manner. Compensation should be given for the work and contribution that the person delivers to the company. It should not depend on negotiation skills and boldness of the employee to ask for more. Unless their job is a negotiator :).
CI as continuous improvement
Everybody in tech world understands CI as continuous integration, but the other and maybe even more important meaning of this abbreviation is continuous improvement. It is easy to say that we encourage progress and learning, but as people get overwhelmed with daily tasks, these more abstract goals are pushed to
Continuous delivery of release notes
In Mews, on our journey towards continuous product delivery, we faced an unanticipated, but really important issue for our customers; promptly informing them about updates and new features of the system, also known as "release notes". Solving this became a precondition for us going full steam ahead with continuous delivery.
Automating code review
In Mews, we are big fans of code review. Not only because it prevents bugs, but also it serves as a natural place for information sharing. For newcomers, it's the easiest way how to quickly get a picture of what's currently being worked on and how other developers solve their