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...
Previous episode: http://gebski.tumblr.com/post/62260870845/bakin-bakin-bakin-logging-for-enterprise-scale Where did we stop? As far as I remember we were having some brainstorming about the shape of enterprise-ready large-scale logging solution for IT landscape running several applications for 1M+ users. And we had some kind of a cliffhanger when dealing...
I’ve spent last few days on setting up the nice, pipe-lined solution for enterprise-level logging. It involves few interesting distributed technologies, running on Linux (we’re almost 100% Windows-based here atm), so I’ve decided to give a go to some nice virtualization and provisioning tools - namely: Vagrant...
If you told me six months ago, that in half a year I’d articulate such a statement - I wouldn’t believe. But yes, it’s true - Visual Studio slowly starts to get obsolete on my workstation. What has changed then? Web Dev and VS First, I was...
Story: large, on-line app that servers hundreds of thousands users in the real-time (via web and mobile) has some issues with proper managing events and logs. Logging is centralized (in relational DB), has a SPoF ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure) and its load has an impact...
ABB DevDay 2013 (http://devday.pl/) is over. If you don’t want to read the full review and you just expect a bold statement - here it is: it was awesome. The best .NET (majorly, but not only) dev conference in Poland. By freaking far. Why: 1. Top-notch presenters...
It took me some time, but I’ve finally went for my upgrades (MCPD to MCSD). It seems that I need only 4 exams to upgrade everything (I’ve made a separate post about that - http://gebski.tumblr.com/post/55622417199/another-twist-in-microsoft-certifications ), so it doesn’t seem to be...
