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There comes a time in a software engineer's career when they start asking the dreaded question. Do I continue writing code as an 'individual contributor' or should I start the gradual descent into management?

Everyone uses libraries. They are your optional way to save time on writing boilerplate code. But when to use them is a debatable question. The unspoken rule is: keep writing custom code until you get the feeling that something is so common that there must be a standard way of doing it. But there are those who disagree: those who vowed to write everything from scratch and those who never write a line of code without checking GitHub for a ready solution.

Exactly a week after the event, I finally have some time to cover the One More Thing 2012 conference that I was lucky enough to check out down in Melbourne last Saturday. Unfortunately, I could only catch the main conference on Saturday (May 26) therefore missing the mini-conferences on Friday, but oh well. Jump past the break for the full story.

As if Apple's mobile devices not supporting Flash was not enough to make anyone wanting to build web UI's look elsewhere, Adobe ceased development of Flash plugins for mobile browsers.