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...
Software is similar to exactly nothing we had in this world until it has emerged. Ephemeral, not physical but with constantly growing physical indirect effects on our world. Software development has started as a small, isolated industry (focused on actual computing) but now it's powering up almost every...
Programming is not an art. Programming is not a discipline of science either. It's a craft - very special kind of craft: * it requires imagination & creativity somehow similar to what art requires * it has very strong scientific foundations, especially in terms of various areas of mathematics * but...
Uncertainty, uncertainty everywhere You know what's the most common error people make when trying to embrace DDD? They tend to focus on DDD's specific DSL (terminology, composition) - entities, boundaries, aggregate roots, etc. because they think that this particular modeling model (OMG, recurrence detected, stack overflow...
BuildStuff 2015 [http://buildstuff.lt/] is over, so is (almost) another season of conferencing. It has left me somewhat ambivalent about whether I'm up for more in 2016 - I've written about that after DevDay 2015 [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/devday-2015-my-evolving-perspective-on-conferences/] already, so I'm...
You've heard about REPL [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop], didn't you? REPL stands for Read Eval Print Loop & it's a common name for platform/language-specific shells that give you the ability to do live programming...
Previous post in the series can be found here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/how-i-got-myself-into-alchemy-part-i/]. Back to potion-mixing business then. I've decided to go for functional chemistry, but should you? Should your pals? Should everybody around because it's presumable The Next Big Thing? Alchemy for the masses...
