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...
Sooo, I’ve broken (or stretched…) some of my rules a bit :) Usually I don’t install beta / RC software, but I couldn’t resist giving a go to new Visual Studio (check my previous post for a direct link). Experience is highly positive - it works very smoothly (loading...
31st of May was a good day - Microsoft has released new RCes (release candidates) of their top products: * Visual Studio 2012 RC ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/31/visual-studio-2012-rc-available-now.aspx ) * Windows 8 Release Preview ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/31/delivering-the-windows-8-release-preview....
Have you heard about AOP? AOP stands for Aspect Oriented Programming - paradigm of software development focused on separation of so-called "concerns". What’s “concern” (in this context)? It’s a part of code that’s not related directly to functional requirements but it’s crucial for overall...
This week I’ve been approached by two co-workers with business background who asked me questions regarding an interesting matter: * what’s the best way to get basic information about software development fundamentals, if you’re a business-oriented person Obviously, none of them wanted to switch his career path to...
Today’s running session smashed me down totally (but I’ve managed to improve my record for 10 km by over 2 mins, what has a great impact on my overall mood :)), so I’ll be brief today: Data in the fast laneFirst, very interesting article I’ve found yesterday....
Today it became more clear why did Phil Haack leave Microsoft to join github.com - GitHub for Windows has been released ( https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for-windows). What’s GitHub? To answer that, I need to step back a little to tell you what Git is. Git (http://git-scm.com/...
