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...
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...
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 "...
Few days ago I’ve brought up the short list of developer ‘genres’ I prefer working with. Obviously, every pot has two handles, so there’s another list that contains the categories of developer’s I’d eagerly avoid as hard as possible. Here it comes, the rotten cherries on...
Plenty of cool stuff going on around, but before I can reveal something more, I’d like to share some interesting stuff I’ve found recently: Coypu (https://github.com/featurist/coypu) Coypu is a web browser automation library for .NET. If you’ve done some E2E testing Angular.js...
Finally, I’m switching from my old and pretty worn HTC Mozart 7 (running on WP 7.8 atm) to Nokia Lumia 920 (WP 8). Can’t imagine a better moment for a brief review of WP 7.x - it’s usability, stability, annoying stuff & the overall fun factor,...
Oh yea, I love to classify things - tag them, label them, categorize them. Keep stuff in order. Same applies to people who tend to be more complex than “things”, but nevertheless (even if my pick appears wrong, after some time) I still do classify people. I’ve met hundreds of...
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...
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...
