http://codecube.net/ Software Engineer at Xamarin. Founded ONETUG. Author of 'C# 5 First Look' http://amzn.com/1849686769. en-us https://codecube.net/2025/9/team-series-cowboy-coders/ Probably every engineer will have worked with that one person who thrives in the chaos. A system breaks, customers are blocked, and before anyone else has even read the incident report, they’re alr... Joel Martinez 2025-09-09 2025-09-09 https://codecube.net/2025/9/accidental-path/ There’s a book called Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned that my friend Matt Mazur recently tweeted about. He wrote: “It’s a risky strategy because the most likely outcome is you explore and discover... Joel Martinez 2025-09-01 2025-09-01 https://codecube.net/2025/8/team-series-root-cause/ “Move fast and break things.” The phrase came out of Facebook’s early days and quickly became a shorthand mantra across the industry. It’s catchy, it feels daring, and it captures a mindset that va... Joel Martinez 2025-08-28 2025-08-28 https://codecube.net/2025/8/tiers-ai/ Not too long ago, everyone was wondering whether $20 a month for an AI coding tool was worth it. Today, devs are easily blowing past $200 worth of capacity in a single billing cycle, and it’s easy ... Joel Martinez 2025-08-26 2025-08-26 https://codecube.net/2025/8/timeline-demo/ I've been writing recently about posts being worthless in the AI era, and explored different ways of navigating content... Joel Martinez 2025-08-23 2025-08-23 https://codecube.net/2025/8/agile-fail/ I first experienced “agile” back in 2004 when I started working at what was then called EA Tiburon. The agile manifesto was still a relatively new concept and I was so excited to be a part of worki... Joel Martinez 2025-08-21 2025-08-21 https://codecube.net/2025/8/chloroplast/ “When I ask myself ‘what would have the most impact today?’ I sit down and write documentation.” — Miguel de Icaza Documentation has been a big part of my career; working on Microsoft Learn, as the... Joel Martinez 2025-08-17 2025-08-17 https://codecube.net/2025/8/team-series-process/ When you look at how teams ship software, two extremes pop into view.... Joel Martinez 2025-08-11 2025-08-11 https://codecube.net/2025/8/ai-breadline/ Here's a familiar pattern I’ve seen play out more than once. Recently, Anthropic reduced Claude’s usage limits after someone started consuming way more resources than expected. That’s understandabl... Joel Martinez 2025-08-07 2025-08-07 https://codecube.net/2025/8/team-series-specialization/ Tiny teams move fast because nobody argues over job boundaries. One day you're tweaking CSS, the next you're writing a quick‑and‑dirty data migration. The product needs finishing, so hats get stack... Joel Martinez 2025-08-04 2025-08-04 https://codecube.net/2025/7/link-map/ I wrote This Post is Worthless about how the old web worked, back when links weren’t just SEO fuel but the actual connective tissue of the internet. If I’m going to talk about that, I figured I sho... Joel Martinez 2025-07-31 2025-07-31 https://codecube.net/2025/7/worthless-post/ I’ve always loved what PageRank promised from the early days of Google: links as votes, authority that anyone could earn if readers found an idea useful enough to link to it. In that early blog era... Joel Martinez 2025-07-28 2025-07-28 https://codecube.net/2025/7/team-series-death-by-status/ There’s a moment, early on in a team’s life, when everything just flows. You don’t need a status meeting because everyone already knows what’s happening. You don’t need a kickoff doc because someon... Joel Martinez 2025-07-24 2025-07-24 https://codecube.net/2025/7/how-work-kept-changing/ In 2013, I wrote a post about how work was changing—a snapshot of what felt like the beginning of a broader shift. Remote work was still a bit of a curiosity for many companies but growing, side pr... Joel Martinez 2025-07-21 2025-07-21 https://codecube.net/2025/7/powershell-from-csharp-updated/ While checking my analytics recently, I noticed that an old post of mine from 2009 was still getting hits. It was a little helper class I had put together to run PowerShell scripts from a C# app. A... Joel Martinez 2025-07-16 2025-07-16