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...
Within last week only I’ve encountered two interesting (and very similar) design cases (two different projects, two different teams): 1. System will be spammed with a constant stream of simple data messages in coherent format. Each data sample will contain few simple metrics (mainly currency, price and quantity). Project...
[Self-advertisement mode on] Another scalp joined my collection - “Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010”. It was quite a big effort as it’s not the technology I use everyday (or have used in the past) on any of my projects. I had some prior experience with BizTalk...
This post may look like re-inventing the wheel, but when it was initially published in company’s intranet to aid junior programmers. That’s why :) Every tech specialist divides his time into two categories: * time when he looks for solutions to his unique and special problems * time when he’s...
Clearly Santa Claus was in town this week. His latest trip has brought at least two interesting (at least for me) new products: Silverlight 5 and Windows Server AppFabric 1.1. Silverlight 5 Community of .NET developers has at least few important milestones marked in their calendars. One of them...
I was doing some research in ASP.NET MVC documentation to track down the meaningful differences between version 3 and forthcoming version 4. Accidentally I’ve found an interesting article (Jon Galloway’s AFAIR) about web security (both in general and for ASP.NET MVC specifically). I was never a...
We just had a roll-out weekend at our client (large corporate Bank). In this particular context it means that 5 months of 40 people-strong developer squad’s work has been deployed on production environments. Just to give you some plain numbers: * 1 deployment night * 8 developer teams’ work * 52 different...
