In the land of the blind, the measuring one is the king
A short conversation I had today: > Me: How are we doing with X? What's the current state - how far have we gone & what's left to do? > A: Good news - we're pretty much done & it's a clear...
Sebastian Gebski
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.
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The skill chasm - it's there, I swear
In one of Jeff Atwood's blog [http://blog.codinghorror.com/] posts I've found an interesting reference to a very succulent interview [http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/] with Bill Gates. It seems ancient (1986!) & the discussed topics' range is quite wide, but there was one...
The greatest lie about career progression
About two weeks ago Agile Warsaw [http://www.meetup.com/AgileWarsaw/] snatched Jurgen Appelo [http://www.jurgenappelo.com/] (who by any chance had some workshops in Poland) to give a short speech for our little :) community. If you have no clue about who's this guy, you may give...
Why #ABBDevDay 2014 didn't rock my world
Looking back at my review of DevDay 2013 [http://gebski.tumblr.com/post/61837297151/abb-devday-2013-the-aftermath] it was no suprise that I was very interested in attending DevDay 2014 [http://devday.pl/] as well. Getting the conference ticket (they were free, but their number was limited) is a separate story itself,...
ApprovalTests for .NET - seems crazy, but there's a point...
To be honest, I haven't heard about ApprovalTests [http://approvaltests.sourceforge.net/] library until just few days ago, when I've spotted a new course on Pluralsight [http://beta.pluralsight.com/] - Approval Tests for .NET [http://beta.pluralsight.com/courses/approval-tests-dotnet]. But the concept seems interesting...
Scalding - functional data processing using Scala & Hadoop
Producing a lot of data doesn't bring value by itself, even if data actually makes sense. Storing a lot of data doesn't bring value by itself either. The ability to process all this data is the key to bring some actual value. What is more, the...