Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
MTS 2013 - the biggest Microsoft Tech conference in Poland ( http://www.mtskonferencja.pl/) is going to happen in 2 months time. Honestly, if you asked me about MTS few years ago, I’d really recommend attending - IMHO it was a great opportunity to meet interesting people (Clemens Vasters!...
Last few days have been really busy for me, nevertheless even in such circumstances I still find some time to read up something - my latest lecture is Eric Ries’es "The Lean Startup" ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Lean-Startup-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B004J4XGN6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&...
If it comes to decide between "build or buy", it’s usually a hard choice to make. Even if you pick the ready "off-the-shelf" product, it usually needs a lot of polishing to make it work. You can call yourself lucky if such adjustments can be...
I guess it comes with the experience - after you do couple of projects you start noticing things and patterns between those. After some time they start to fit together ("click") and make much more sense than initially. But there are things I was always finding absolutely obvious...
> *** Important *** People usually don’t fight corporations. Few do, even fewer win. It’s damn hard to win against one, as they have incomparably larger cash pool and endless human resources to torment you relentlessly (while you have to spend all your time to match them). I’m practical,...
> *** UPDATE *** As you can see in the comments, JetBrains are truly jet-boosted, as they’ve responded really quickly. The key information (that was already available on the internet in archive blog posts, but I’ve missed that) is that IntelliJ IDEA 13 is supposed to be released in December...