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 "...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
