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’s quite funny to observe the way in which new generation of engineers resembles the past ones. We all are perfectionists, we all have our own ideas how to create software, we don’t like working with other people code and we all do the same mistakes once and...
Yesterday, I was asked to help with solving some kind of development problem by one of the new programmers on the project. I’ve started with examining the error messages displayed on the screen, but in a second or two, I needed to switch window and type some commands in...
What’s ZeroMQ (0MQ)? It’s a non-brokered asynchronous messaging way to connect application on various platforms. Its creators call it "The Intelligent Transport Layer" (http://www.zeromq.org/). Why should you check it out? * Because it’s ultra-fast and lightweight * Because it supports various protocols, suited for...
Every now and then, someone wonders why I bother myself with Microsoft technologies in enterprise environment - "everyone knows that Microsoft software is buggy, prone to malware, viruses and exploits". Obviously, reasons of such thinking come from the times of MS DOS and first versions of Windows, but...
MTS (Microsoft Technology Summit) has just ended in Poland (sadly I couldn’t participate, but luckily I’ve found a substitution for my already paid slot) and BUILD 2012 is going on right now. There’s no time to waste, streaming broadcast from Redmond is on (Scott Hanselman is interviewing...
I’ve already committed a detailed blog post about that some time ago, so I’m not going to repeat myself - if you’re interested inApache Hadoop( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop) implementation “by Microsoft”, you should check their latest announcements (but don’t get too excited,...
