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I came up with the title for this article following a recent argument I’ve had at the workplace. Then, just before starting to write - I googled it. At first I was surprised at the amount of results, but after a minute - not so much.

One of Wix’s known mottos is “The Way the Web was Meant to Be”. We at WIx truly believe that everyone should have a website, and of course, anyone should be able to access and use these websites, built using Wix tools.

Wix has many users, and these users are very divers...

As the different chat and messaging services are invading our lives, I've decided to put together a list of rules that everyone should follow when using these tools in the workplace (and out of it):

• Chat is an offline tool - Never start a conversation with "hey" and...

Last week I attended AMP conference by Google in NY.
In addition to the sessions I attended, I also got a chance to discuss AMP in particular and mobile performance in general with the AMP dev team and with many users of the technology.

AMP is here to stay. Although it’...

The other day I got some valuable feedback from my manager. Too often I come up as too pessimistic, borderline bad-tempered.

This didn't shock me. I know that some days I'm "short". I get pissed and I'm not a person who hides their emotions so it shows. Yet, hearing it...

As many others do, I going to start a new experiment - for the next 10 days I'll spend the first 10 minutes of the day writing.

Why?

Because I feel that I have stuff to say and at least a small amount of it should be stored.

For the first day I'll discuss the Wordpress-Wi...

After a long break, we plan to start recruiting again, and this time from a more powerful position. Previously when I recruited, I was looking for the 2nd or 3rd developer for the team so the question of fitting within the group was not really relevant. Now that's the...

I recently read this post about Questions to ask on the first 1:1 with a new employee. I must say that only from reading the topic I had a sense I won't like what i'd read and in fact I found a big problem with the writer's approach. This kind of questions belong on th...

Every team should have a set of values they agree on and can always get back to.

While that's not always easy to achieve. I think that every engineer and manager should have their own set of values so that they have their red lines, the things they value and consider im...

The offsite concluded in a day (half a day, actually) dedicated to discussing the new structure and practices. This was a day that I planned and executed and thus, was very important to me.

While preparing to this day I had a hard time deciding how to present the concer...

3rd day of the offsite was dedicated to an outdoors activity. The second best way to cause developer bonding is by drinking together (The first being coding together..).

We had a plan to on a yacht but that fell through due to a wavy sea. Liran stepped up and managed to...

The second day of the offsite was dedicated to our product.

Tomer, our Product Manager, lead this day and its goals were:

1. Sync on the next quarter goals

2. Discussion about vision - where should our product be a year or 2 from now

Tomer started with a short intro...

Previously on the Blog team:

I wrote in the past about my pitch to get a new team from Ukraine. Time have passed and it was actually decided to break that team up and I got 2 new devs. In addition to them, over the last 3 months 3 devs joined the Israeli team, what made...

No, I'm not gonna talk about Trump.

I want to share an experience I had recently and the emotions that followed it.

If you're not new to this blog you already know that my team is in a desparate need of working hands. As the process of recruting a new dev has been unfru...

My dev team is buid of 5 developers, 3 of which are stationed in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. I've been managing offshore for about 1.5 years now and would like to share some insights I gathered:

1. Form a personal relationship

2. Communicate, Communicate, Communicate

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