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...
I’ve shamelessly stolen the title of this post to grab your attention, people :) The title is taken from from the very interesting blog post a friend shared with me recently: http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/networking-cannot-replace-skills.html Even if I don’t agree with some of the...
Today I was going to give you some overview of the changes in Visual Studio 2012 , honestly, but … I’ve found something worth sharing instead :) Well, it’s not like the changes in latest MSFT IDE are not interesting, but these can wait. In one of the recent posts I’...
1. Finally! Latest Martin Fowler’s (http://martinfowler.com/) book - "NoSQL Distilled : A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence"- has been published in both paperback and Kindle ( http://www.amazon.com/NoSQL-Distilled-Emerging-Persistence-ebook/dp/B0090J3SYW/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=...
I tend to observe interesting trend, appearing one and then here and there - people overuse the words "architect" and "architecture" when they speak about software: * every diagram is "an architecture blueprint" * every design document is "an architecture overview" * every analyst who...
Yesterday was a big day, both Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 RTM versions have been released (RTM = ready to market) to MSDN subscribers. Obviously I’ll write a lot about VS2012 in forthcoming weeks, but for now I’d like to focus on my first impressions on Windows 8....
At the end of July Gartner has released next wave (for the present year - 2012) of their most interesting reports - Hype Cycles ( http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/hype-cycles/). What’s a hype cycle?Gartner claims that each technology’s life cycle follows the same pattern - first,...
