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...
It feels like I’m “evangelizing” about that since forever, but people still keep coming and some of them really have problems with understanding that - so I’ve decided to write it all down for future reference - you know, the RTFM-like kind of thing. Your test environment is...
The number of awesome libraries for HTML5 + CSS3 + JS is overwhelming. Pretty much every day I find something absolutely awesome, that I’d like to give a try the very second I spotted it. What is more, the vast majority of those are free, so personally I see a very...
If you read my blog or follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/liveweird), you’re most likely aware, that I’m totally hooked on Scala ( http://www.scala-lang.org/) recently - in short words: because it’s what (IMHO) what Java should be alike: concise, up-to-date with recent trends...
One of my former team-mates has just recently left his current job (we were co-operating at the same client company) - it was a great opportunity to go through so called "ol’ good times" war stories and while we chatted I’ve asked him whether he has an...
Episode #1: http://gebski.tumblr.com/post/62260870845/bakin-bakin-bakin-logging-for-enterprise-scale Episode #2: http://gebski.tumblr.com/post/63404293910/bakin-bakin-bakin-logging-for-enterprise-scale Let’s get back to our enterprise logging scenario: we’ve kinda already sketched the overall topology: we’re gonna collect events using MOM (RabbitMQ), process them in Twitter Storm (aka Apache...
One months ago I’ve finally got ridden of my ancient Windows Phone 7.8 mobile ( HTC Mozart) and I’ve summarized my thoughts about that OS in a review ( http://gebski.tumblr.com/post/63951193630/2-5-years-with-windows-phone-7-x-the-good-the-bad ). Since then I was using shiny and new Nokia Lumia 920, running on...
