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...
Accidentally, I’ve found an interesting project - a tool that is able to analyze your source control repository (SVN, Git, Mercurial, etc.) and visualize all the changes that happened - branching, expanding, merging, etc. You can find the tool here:http://code.google.com/p/gource/And if you...
Everyone wants to play a major role in (r)evolution of JavaScript. CoffeeScript (http://coffeescript.org/) has already gained some popularity, Google has released its Dart (http://www.dartlang.org/) not that long time ago. Here comes Microsoft (have you noticed that they are always late?), bringing to you… TADAMMM!...
No long post tonight, I just want to share an opinion about interesting book I’m currently reading (almost finished) - "The Goal" by Eliyahu Goldratt. This book is considered one of the foundations of modern Kanban (and that should be a sufficient recommendation for all of you,...
… here comes Greg Young to prove you wrong :) We all know relational databases (RDBMSes), then we’ve learned object ones, document ones, key-value ones, etc.. Now we’re getting back to the roots to find the***functional***database aka database that supports event sourcing. What’s event sourcing?Basicly, current...
Who likes testing? Pretty much no-one does - testing usually is boring, repetitive, more a burden than the opportunity to get everlasting glory. It gets more and more painful when you proceed to maintenance releases and there’s a need to perform full regression testing of everything that was deployed...
Platform wars are about to break out again. What am I saying, they never really ceased. Well, some believed that HTML5 will be the "silver bullet" of modern client architectures that will unify the application across all platforms. Honestly, this didn’t really look convincing enough, as it...
