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 was planning to write something about differences between agile approach to software development and more classical one (waterfall-alike) style, but I didn’t really want to repeat the obvious banalities you can easily find on Google. That’s why I decided to present it more like “top-down”...
This text may seem to re-invent the wheel. It was first published within company’s intranet to evangelize and tutor junior programists. That’s why :) Testing is hard. Making it in an efficient way is even harder. Legions of experienced functional and technical people spent man-years on finding...
I think everyone knows this feeling - you have a program installed, you even use it sometimes, but no-one told you that there’s something very powerful under the hood, something that can save you hours (or even days) of painful work. Sometimes you don’t even know that you...
Get them some JetBrains tools. It’s definitely the easiest way.Yesterday JetBrains released new tier of their .NET-oriented product versions and it’s a great opportunity to advertise some of them as they are really worth of praise. Some of you may know this company already, I personally...
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...
