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.

The Wisdom of Agile Development

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

What is wisdom? This is a definition from the Ethics Resource Center: “The ability to make good judgments based on what you have learned from your experience.” According to this definition, a wise man is someone with vast knowledge and … Continue reading →

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Who is an Expert? – On Rules and Exceptions

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

It is relatively easy to find very young people who are brilliant programmers, who seem to know every detail about a particular language, platform or technology. Some of them will be able to implement a nice Android app in a … Continue reading →

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Design Patterns and the Tower of Babel

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

This is the story of the Tower of Babel from Wikipedia: According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of … Continue reading →

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The Facebook Killer: Lack of Reciprocity

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

Some people claim that Facebook will be replaced by some other social network such as Google+. I think that the real Facebook killer will be the Lack of Reciprocity: If you are constantly posting about your personal life, you will … Continue reading →

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The Agile Architect

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) in Israel was honored to host a talk by Johanna Rothman last week (June/21/2011). Johanna Rothman is a consultant, author and speaker with vast experience with project management. She was visiting Israel and … Continue reading →

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The Single Question Interview

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

The routine of a software developer normally turns around design, implementation and testing. But hopefully there will be times in which the team needs to grow, and then he will be asked to do something extraordinary: Interviews. In the software … Continue reading →

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Divide-and-Conquer: Coping with Complexity

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

Sometimes a problem is simply too complex for us to solve. Our only chance seems to be breaking it into smaller parts that we know how to deal with. This strategy of reducing the complexity of a problem by dividing … Continue reading →

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On Bubbles and the Value of Data

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

In a recent article at Newsweek, Daniel Lyons claims that: “Data, by itself, is worthless. Facebook is betting it can create software algorithms to extract value from that data—essentially to perform a kind of techno-alchemy and turn zillions of meaningless … Continue reading →

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Soft Skills vs. Software Skills

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

When building a team of software developers, it is very important to define the profile of the engineers we want to compose it: Do we want to give importance mostly to the software skills, or do we want also to … Continue reading →

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Inheritance and the Power of Abstraction

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Hayim Makabee

Programming is an exercise in abstraction. If a program is intended to solve some problem, we must first be able to model this problem in an abstract way, in order to express it in a programming language. Only after the … Continue reading →

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