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.
I tend to observe interesting trend, appearing one and then here and there - people overuse the words "architect" and "architecture" when they speak about software: * every diagram is "an architecture blueprint" * every design document is "an architecture overview" * every analyst who creates...
Yesterday was a big day, both Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 RTM versions have been released (RTM = ready to market) to MSDN subscribers. Obviously I’ll write a lot about VS2012 in forthcoming weeks, but for now I’d like to focus on my first impressions on Windows 8....
At the end of July Gartner has released next wave (for the present year - 2012) of their most interesting reports - Hype Cycles ( http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/hype-cycles/). What’s a hype cycle?Gartner claims that each technology’s life cycle follows the same pattern - first, it’s...
As an employee of a consulting company, I can confirm that our services are not cheap, but our clients don’t involve us in jobs every other company can do. Usually we do things that are complex, not performed successfully anywhere yet, in severe circumstances or all of the above....
In theory you can do everything with a notepad and command-line compiler, but if you want to do something efficiently, it’s good to automate what can be automated and aid what can be aided. Fortunately, many of good tools are free and there’s no cost related, but...
Do you know what I find a greatest addition to C# 4.0 / .NET 4.0? * Dynamic? Well, it really did enable some interesting options (especially for F# and MVC), but it wasn’t a gamechanger really * Covariance and Contravariance? Seriously, do you feel the difference? * WF 4.0? Ok,...