Notes

Posted on 04 September 2019

Posted on 04 September 2019

Pair Programming (PP) is one of the XP practices. Many modern software development companies use it in daily activities. On the other side in many places PP is treated as a waste of resources because the same result could be achieved with half of the effort. Software developers also have mixed feelings about this methodology, including me.

Posted on 26 July 2019

To get motivated I need inspiration. Studying about and having The Giants close to me is helpful. This post is about the inspiration I get from them.

Posted on 19 June 2019

I was a true believer in Agile methodology. I was... Now I think Agile, in the current form, does more harm to the project than waterfall did in the past. Let me explain you why.

Posted on 16 June 2019

So you want to change your career :) IT is maybe more lucrative than other industries or just gives more fun! Here are some tips for people want change themselves into programmers.

Posted on 23 May 2019

Time - probably the only resource on the planed that we can get back. We have to choose what we spend our time on, with whom and on what.

Posted on 10 March 2019

Last week I was involved in moving software solutions from one server farm to another.

Posted on 08 October 2018

In one of the projects we work at Gemotial it was pretty cumbersome to test feature branches locally. The changes very often could have an impact on MSSQL or Oracle backend. We thought it would be great if we cloud run the changes on our integration tests configuration in Jenkins. Then, use the tests results (a link to it) in merge-request description. That way we could ensure that new functionality does not break the software.

Posted on 20 September 2018

My blog always used Wordpress as the blog engine. I remember version 2.6. That was long time ago. During recent years the engine was actively developed by the community. Currently there is version 4.7.

Posted on 04 September 2018

Why there are parks in the cities? Why did city architects decide to keep those green islands?

Posted on 24 August 2018

Recently one of my colleagues asked the following question on Twitter:

Posted on 05 August 2018

I've been programming for over a decade. During that time I went through several pretty difficult scenarios in my programming assignments. I want to share some thoughts in this post.

Posted on 20 June 2018

A few weeks back I've created a survey for developers. The idea was to test my 7 dev types and potentially uncover something new.

Posted on 20 May 2018

For the last few weeks, I have been learning docker. The start with new technologies was, as usual, easy for the basics and fairly difficult for the more advanced stuff. On some stage, I found KataCoda. The service motto is: Learn new technologies using real environments right in your browser.

Posted on 26 February 2018

I had the opportunity to give the presentation Seven Personality Types of Software Developer twice so far. The presentation is based on my previous post. First of all, the session was surprisingly very interesting for developers. Despite its soft nature, I have received a lot of feedback from the audience during and after the session. The whole idea of categorizing developers by their personality type seems to be hot.

Posted on 07 September 2017

Today I wanted to touch the subject of programming schools.

Posted on 18 May 2017

Posted on 04 May 2017

This post is also available in Russian language at Softdroid

Posted on 19 January 2017

In IT industry we have to learn quite intensive new things. Everything changes, but in our industry, it happens much faster. Today's buzzword is forgotten tomorrow. How do we approach that? 's annoying and silly to waste time on somethings like that.

Posted on 22 October 2016

In every group of individuals, we can recognize a pattern. Observing and grouping people can give us more understanding of how teams are formed, how they work etc...

Posted on 13 October 2016

We all suffer from having not enough time. Time to do this or that. I did some research on where is my time spent. My daily (and simplified) activities that could be automated look like following:

Posted on 17 August 2016

In the past, there were myths and legends passed between generations. Later Gutenberg introduced printing... the knowledge started to spread across the world rapidly. This day's books are the main sources of transferring knowledge. Open-minded people read a lot. I try to stay open-minded...

Posted on 05 April 2016

This post will be in polish since it is totally related to polish .NET group on Facebook

Posted on 18 March 2016

TL;DR; Write down everything from the meeting :) Day after meeting we remember 20% from it

Posted on 10 March 2015

Last Saturday I had a presentation about SOLID. Below is the video recording. Unfortunately, the session itself was taken in polish but, at least the slides are in English :)

Posted on 18 January 2015

Almost every software engineer start his career as a junior developer. Sometimes in a corporate environment, sometimes in small software studio etc... Young code hackers are often as good as developers with few years of professional experience. There are several possibilities evolve as a great software engineer in our industry.

Posted on 26 October 2014

Yesterday (25.10.2014) I have attended a local NoSQL Hackathon. The event was hosted by PGS Software. It started at 9:00 and took a bit less then 9 hours to program a sample version if a twitter-like website.

Posted on 27 June 2014

Last Wednesday we had our first meeting in regarding .NET Dev PL website project. It was 1,5 hour Skype discussion. I think it went pretty well. We learned a little bit about other team members. It turned out that some of us are experts in front-end technologies, others in SharePoint or in DevOps. I'm happy that the team is a mix of various point of views.

Posted on 24 June 2014

After a brief description in my previous post why .NET Developers Poland group was created now it is time to share some rules that every group member should respect.

Posted on 22 June 2014

Over the last several years I was observing how software engineering communities evolve and grow around the world. People join communities to be stronger, to share knowledge, to search for solutions to their problems or just for fun. At this point, I missed perhaps 100 other reasons, but there is always a purpose. Often the need is to stick with new technologies and similar people. They need a place for that, a habitat...

Posted on 18 December 2012

New year is coming. As usual, in this moment it time I set goals for upcoming year. Having my goals written down keeps me motivated and focused on reaching them.

Posted on 13 December 2012

For all who are looking for good ignore pattern. I use follow one:

Posted on 04 November 2012

IT industry is growing rapidly... software and hardware are continuously improved. The new software works slow on old hardware. We all have faced that problem before :P About two weeks ago I decided to buy a new "sandbox" too :D My first idea was to buy a good notebook, but after deeper research, calculation and thinking I decided to get desktop PC. This choice, as we all know, has pros and cons, but I think desktop PC is that what I need now.

Posted on 27 September 2012

Last Saturday I have attended my first conference in autumn 2012. I have registered for it on dedicated website (mobilization.pl). The website could look a bit more professional. A mix of Polish/English, fonts. Anyway, I was able to find all the important information.

Posted on 05 February 2012

Posted on 27 September 2011

"Some fields should be read-only"... Is this a good description? If you can read in other minds, then it's ok..... otherwise be more precise when submitting a bug report!

Posted on 16 December 2010