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...
Service market is evolving constantly. We’re all used to applications served on-line as well as service APIs (for example Google’s or Amazon’s), but offering data (in “pay-as-you-consume” system) is something relatively new. Do you need stock prices? Weather data? Economic indicators? You can get it from someone...
I never believed in JavaScript. I was always finding it awkward, unfriendly and limited. There were times when majority of people were disabling JavaScript in their browsers as it was considered one of the easiest security breach points available. I was totally sure I can recognize the trend and predict...
… the next moment when someone comes to you with surprisingly interesting idea. And that happened to me few days ago, when two guys from client side approached me to ask for my opinion about library they’ve found in Microsoft Dev Labs. That’s how I started my adventure with...
Microsoft, like many other vendors who offer technical solutions in IT, offers a wide certification program for technology specialists (not only developers, but also administrators). As each certification is obtained by passing the more or less demanding exam (or even few exams), it’s a supposed to be a certain...
Yesterday I’ve spent several hours on a workshop at one of our local financial services clients, here in Poland. The audience consisted of several low-level managers and senior developers from client’s IT department and my co-speaker was a head of development team from the same client (but different...
Martin Fowler is a living legend. Period. His “Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture” is still one of very few books every solution architect wannabe should get familiar with. His famous article about Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control ( http://martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html) was one of the milestones in...
