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...
Jolly we! Few days ago IETF has released the initial draft of HTTP/2.0 specification (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04). It’s just draft and what is more - an initial draft, so hold your horses with heavy development, but it’s possibly to already make yourself some...
Few days ago Howard Dierking from Microsoft has recently published a short note on his blog ( http://codebetter.com/howarddierking/2013/07/23/katana-license-lifts-windows-only-restriction/ ) - seems not a big deal, isn’t it? Well, in this case it’s more than just interesting, because: * Howard and his gang work on...
Aaaaaand I was right (I both love and loathe that feeling sometimes). What about? WinRT / Windows 8 and Surface of course - you’ve seen the recent news, did you?If you didn’t, here’s your brief (links are taken from TechCrunch, but all the industry news portals had...
Mission accomplished. As I’ve planned, I’ve made a little effort to migrate all the posts from my old Wordpress blog to Tumblr. Over 120 posts migrated automatically using Tumblr API and some Scala coding. Honestly - it was fun. Not because it was either challenging or much of...
As you can see in the title. End of story. Period. Maybe it’s just bad luck, but within few last weeks I had quite a few similar experiences - I was looking for a component to be integrated (as on-premise) in larger solution and usually there were plenty of...
I’m pretty sure you’ve already heard about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, especially if you got any (even most basic) training in so-called “resource management” (yes, resource = people, how rude, ain’t it?). If you have no clue what I’m blabbering about, check out this link (for...
