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...
Official debut ofSurface(andWindows RT) is tonight, but it seems that this game may have already been lost by Microsoft. They did it again, they had a good product, but they didn’t know what to do with that… First reviews seem to confirm all my fears: * Engadget(http://www....
Today I have for you some shorts about stuff I’ve recently found interesting, amusing or worth considering. 1. Telerik(http://www.telerik.com) has announced its solution for cross-platform mobile development -Icenium(http://www.icenium.com/). Whether we like it or not, mobile is quickly becoming a very serious...
Very quietly, without big announcements, Microsoft has released RTM version of Service Bus 1.0for Windows ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj193022(v=azure.10).aspx) - now it’s possible to use the same Service Bus toolset for both on-premise and Windows Azure! What does that mean...
… will boost your productivity. I’m not kidding, it has been practically proven - keyboard shortcuts are several times faster than clicking fest. On daily basis we use many complex tools with thousands of commands. Clearly, it’s not possible to learn the shortcut keystrokes for all of those, butPareto...
So, you’ve heard something about HTML5. It’s supposed to be super cool, but you’re not technical, so you have no real clue what’s all the fuss about. Which websites are HTML5? Or maybe there are none yet? How will I recognize the HTML5 site, does it...
Recently I’ve (completely by accident ;D) read latest book of Gojko Adzic (author of well-known and commonly praised "Specification by Example") - "Impact Mapping" ( http://www.amazon.com/Impact-Mapping-software-products-ebook/dp/B009KWDKVA). Ok, it wasn’t really an accident: Gojko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojko_...
