A few weeks ago, we (myself & my two friends - Tomek & Wojtek, as a part of a community called CTO Morning Coffee) hosted an online X Spaces session on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). To be clear, this wasn't supposed to be an intro session; quite the contrary....
Many people who've never seen high-performing teams in action (I mean genuinely high-performing, not just the ones who self-claim they are ...), assume that all that you need to form such a team is: * assign them a mission (they could identify with) * grant them a sufficient level of autonomy...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
NFluent (http://n-fluent.net/) is an assertion library. Wait, there are making libraries even for asserting? Isn’t old good, built-in ‘Assert’ enough for everyone? NFluent has some nice features (expecting particular type of exception, collections and enums support), its fluent syntax is very pleasant to use, but there’s...
Prehistory In the beginning, there was log4net (http://logging.apache.org/log4net/). log4cpp & log4j worked that well, that it was semi-obvious that this idea should be ported to the new platform. Listener / appender separation and extensive number of logged event destinations were the key “success factors”. Some time after,...
Last days of December are the best opportunity to summarize the passing year and make plans / adjustments for the next one. As last few days were kind of chill-out time for myself, I’ve made such a recap as well. The result is thrilling - it seems that I’m...
PoRP (https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive) is a first on-line course on Coursera I’ve participated in. It’s a follow-up to "Principles of Functional Programming in Scala" and it’s recommended to go through this one first, but I decided to head straight through PoRP and...
Modern day knowledge sources are completely different to what was available 5+ years ago. We’re not limited to classroom trainings and paperbacks. When compares to those, the vast number of blogs, video courses and tutorials brings us the information that: * is usually more up-to-date * can be more easily corrected...
To err is human - I admit I was very wrong about what “comfort zone” really is and what does it truly mean. My approach has changed over the time and nowadays I have a totally opposite opinion, when compared with what I was thinking few years ago. And that’...
