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...
The Formula IMHO tech skills are 10% talent + 20% engineering common-sense + 20% theoretical knowledge + 50% practical experience. If I've under-estimated any of these, it's most likely (still) the practical experience. Needless to say - it's not ANY practical experience. Going through tutorials on every...
I've encountered a very similar situation in so many companies: their IT landscape grew all the time (while nothing was decommissioned), layers they've initially got became more complicated or even split into sub-layers: sometimes parallel, sometimes stacked. Obviously, different components frequently utilize different technologies, so the...
I am a notorious cheater. * in 2001 I've betrayed Java for .NET * until late 2006-2007 I've been involved in several, stormy romances with unmanaged C++ (we had some past already ...) * around 2011 I began secret meetings with JavaScript, a lot of passion & screaming was involved...
A short post about unreasonable usage of State pattern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_pattern] - something I keep seeing every so often in code (regardless of language / platform). What's a State pattern? State pattern is a way to encapsulate state (& behaviour that depends upon it)...
Part I can be found here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/weaving-code-like-a-boss-part-i/] Options considered By now, you should already have an overall idea what I was expecting of my new devmachine. What models did I consider to fulfill these needs? * I didn't consider MacBook Pro /w Retina [http://www....
It's already over 3 months since I've swapped my primary code-crafting devmachine with Dell XPS 13 (2015) [http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9350-laptop/pd] - sounds like the high time for first conclusions & bold statements ^_^ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Before that, a brief clarification - I knew...
