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...
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/...
I’ve spent last few days on PMI certification preparation course. I didn’t take the exam yet (I want to get through Rita Mulcahy’s Prep Book first), but I guess I can already make some statements about: 1. Comparison between PMP and PRINCE2 2. PMP knowledge being applicable...
IT market is constantly getting more and more interesting. Mobile applications are getting more and more popular (and profitable), but it doesn’t help that every mobile platform has its own tech stack (and in most cases they differ a lot). Even if platform share some common foundation (like Java)...
Flash news! JetBrains released the 1.0 (RTM) version of their FREE decompiler - dotPeek. It’s a viable options for all those who can’t live without RedGate Reflector but don’t want to pay for it. You can find it at http://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler/ Of course...
VCSes (Version Control Systems) are one of the core components of dev architecture. We use them every day and don’t care much about them - they just are (like the command line, web browser and IDE). And usually we don’t see much difference between them (they are just...
(This post has been published with a delay due to site’s maintenance). Today’s the end of so called "long weekend" in Poland. If you took vacation on 30th of April, 2nd of May and 4th of May, you had full 9 days of enjoyable free time...
