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 kinda don't do typical (standard, simple, repetitive, low-risk) projects. Since pretty much always. Why? * because I don't want to * because my clients think they have other things better suited for us (my team) * because no-one would pay my rate for job anyone else...
The waiting is over, it's already here. Maybe it doesn't resolve all the concerns (yes, concerns, I wouldn't even call them issues), but 1.3 [http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2014/10/angularjs-130-superluminal-nudge.html] is a major update that was supposed to...
Free source of information isn't a thing yet - Internet is full of crap anyway. But a free source of valuable information is a completely different kind of story - the one we welcome with open arms. Usually. That's why Succinctly e-book series [http://www.syncfusion.com/...
There are no two dev machines that are completely alike: same software installed (& uninstalled) in the same order, same security patches applies, same OS settings, same IDE configuration. And that's great of course - developers are expected (hopefully in your company as well) to: * search for new "...
A short conversation I had today: > Me: How are we doing with X? What's the current state - how far have we gone & what's left to do? > A: Good news - we're pretty much done & it's a clear success. All...
In one of Jeff Atwood's blog [http://blog.codinghorror.com/] posts I've found an interesting reference to a very succulent interview [http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/] with Bill Gates. It seems ancient (1986!) & the discussed topics' range is quite wide, but there...
