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 "...
[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’...
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...
