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...
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...
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 "...
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...
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-...
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 it (like...
I feel I was drifting a bit too much towards non-technical aspects of my work in previous posts. Today, I bring you something definitely more tekky - selection of few interesting libraries you could use on your projects. FluentSecurity for ASP.NET MVChttp://www.fluentsecurity.net It’s no secret...
Nooo, it’s not about natural interfaces :) Our client quite recently encountered a very interesting stage of its IT landscape maturity life-cycle. Landscape has got unmanageable… Sounds terrifying? Yes, it may look harsh, but fortunately in this particular case it’s still quite easy to fix. Let’s start...
