Author Archives: Hayim Makabee

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About Hayim Makabee

Veteran software developer, enthusiastic programmer, author of a book on Object-Oriented Programming, co-founder and CEO at KashKlik, an innovative Influencer Marketing platform.

Learning from a Shipwreck

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Hayim Makabee

In the last week we followed the story of the Costa Concordia disaster, the cruise ship that partially sank after hitting a reef off the Italian coast. When I first heard about it, I could not understand how this was … Continue reading →

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Hanukkah and Iterative Software Development

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday that is celebrated during eight days. The tradition is to light candles every day, starting with one candle in the first day, then two candles in the second day, and continue adding one candle a … Continue reading →

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TDD and the Gamification of Testing

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

The Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodology was invented to improve the way we test the code we write, with the final goal of increasing the quality of systems being implemented.  The basic idea is that the tests must be written before … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Cocktails: When the client is in the cloud

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

One of the reasons I’m proud to work at Yahoo! is that we have some very nice products that reach hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Another reason is that Yahoo! is behind the development of several advanced technologies and … Continue reading →

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Super-Productivity

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

In a previous post I discussed the reasons some programmers are much more productive than others. But the fact is that every programmer experiences periods of time when he is much more productive than average, and I think there are … Continue reading →

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An Inspiring Jobs

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

With the recent death of Steve Jobs, I decided to learn more about his life and his many contributions to the world of personal computers. During my searches, I found a very inspiring speech he gave in a graduation ceremony … Continue reading →

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Research at Yahoo! Labs

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

My friends frequently ask me about the kind of research I do at Yahoo! Labs. Usually I cannot give them many details, because our work is confidential. But after a project is completed we frequently publish a paper describing it. This … Continue reading →

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The Effective Workplace

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

In a recent article at the Harvard Business Review, entitled “The Twelve Attributes of a Truly Great Place to Work”, Tony Schwartz provides a list of characteristics of an effective workplace that makes the employees more “engaged”, and thus more … Continue reading →

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Programming Without an Internet Connection

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

Are you able to program without an internet connection? In my case the answer is definitely “No.” In most of my programming tasks I need to get some help from the internet, generally in the form of documentation and examples. … Continue reading →

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How Decision Fatigue Affects the Efficacy of Programmers

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

In the past, programming was an activity based on assembling low-level instructions using a small numbers of structures: there were loops, conditional statements and function calls. Systems were built through the application of relatively few patterns at different scales. Even … Continue reading →

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