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 we have a day of betas and early previews. Personally, since OS/2 Warp (OMG, it’s already around 17 years ago!) I avoid installing Betas and CTPs as hard as I can. OS/2 Warp taught me that lesson and I don’t think I will ever forget...
When I’ve started blogging here, I promised to put some reviews of most interesting technology related books I had read recently. It seems I haven’t fulfilled that promise much recently, so today I’d like to catch-up with that a bit. But before I start, a bit of...
I hate wasting time - life’s too short to do everything on your own, that’s why I re-use whatever’s worth re-using. Sometimes licensing costs may be a problem, but usually it’s not that hard to find something for a reasonable price. My latest hunt was for...
This is just too good to not be linked… I believe that every software engineer finds everyday reality reflections in Dilbert comic strips (at least I do), but seriously, this one is makes me believe that someone has read my mind directly :D http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-02-11/ Enjoy!...
Being given so much unwanted opportunity of looking at bad, hurriedly written code recently, I can’t stop evangelising about unit tests. But don’t worry, today I’m going to write about something you problably haven’t seen yet. Behavior Driven Development. So, what’s wrong with TDD? Why...
Before you actually start reading, I must warn you - my opinions, expressed in this post are quite contrary to what you’ll most likely see in some companies (especially consulting services ones). It’s on you what you’re gonna do with that - accept their way or deny...
