Adrian Bolboaca – Mozaic Works

May 10 2018

What is Evolutionary Design?

By Adrian Bolboaca / 6 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Craft, Software Engineering

Evolutionary Design is the practice of growing a system in a natural way, by adding the minimum amount of code to satisfy the business needs in an iterative and incremental approach. When done right, the code structure changes continuously to optimize for change, thus allowing a constant speed of development for longer periods of time. In […]

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Nov 20 2013

Sharing and Learning in the European Communities: SoCraMOB

By Adrian Bolboaca / 5 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Craft

Last week I was invited by Marco to be part of the awesome series of Open Space events organized by the Software Craft (Softwerkskammer) community from Münster, Osnabruck and Bielefeld. These Open Space events are organized by the local Software Craft community that consists of software professionals from the three cities. A couple of years

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Oct 14 2013

How an Unit Test should look like

By Adrian Bolboaca / 3 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Engineering

Often during my life as a programmer, coach and trainer I have to explain how a test should look like. So I decided to write about this subject. Remember that code, especially test code, is read more often than written. Often you will be the person to read it after you wrote it. So do

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Sep 20 2013

I T.A.K.E. Unconference: A learning event

By Adrian Bolboaca / 3 minutes of reading / Architecture, Blog, Public events, Software Craft, Software Engineering

For a couple of years I had an idea: let us organize an event focused for programmers and testers. For them, technical guys and girls that do a lot of work and are the base of any IT business. So, last year during our team retreat (you can see a picture here with us, during

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Sep 20 2013

Sherlock Holmes meets Mozaic Works at Wildcard Conference in Riga

By Adrian Bolboaca / 3 minutes of reading / Blog, Software Engineering

Last week was the first Latvian IT community driven conference. I waited long for being a speaker at this event because I did not know a lot about the Latvian community. So I had one day to find out during this event what the Latvian community prepared for us. Ever since a couple of months

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May 21 2013

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock – Interview with Alex Bolboaca on Architecture, Design, Smalltalk and Programming

By Adrian Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Architecture, Blog, Public events

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock decided to give us an interview on more topics. She will be a speaker at I T.A.K.E. Unconference, Bucharest, 30-31 May 2013. During this video she explains the main reasons why she likes this event: the open space and the fact that it is a coding conference. Another topic of the interview is

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May 14 2013

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: About Agile

By Adrian Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Agile, Blog

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock is having a discussion with Alex Bolboaca about Agile. She says that Agile existed long before it had a name, as a set of values. Rebecca has been using the Agile principles for Software Architecture and Design.

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May 13 2013

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: How much architecture and design should a programmer know

By Adrian Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Architecture, Blog, Video

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock in a discussion with Alex Bolboaca about how much Architecture and Design should programmers know.

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May 9 2013

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: Skills for the Agile Designer

By Adrian Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Architecture, Blog, Public events

Rebecca Wirfs Brock is talking about her workshop “Skills for the Agile Designer”. Check out the workshop description: http://bit.ly/Skills-Agile-Designer

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May 8 2013

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock: About Her Career and Experience

By Adrian Bolboaca / 1 minute of reading / Blog, Public events

An interview of Rebecca Wirfs-Brock with Alex Bolboaca. Rebecca talks about her experience in software development. Also her experience of creating the Smalltalk language that had the first users, among others, Ward Cunningham and Kent Beck. She talks about the books she wrote Object Design: Roles. Responsibility, and Collaborations and Designing Object-Oriented Software.

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