As supporters and contributors to software craft community we love to make visible the values and thoughts of experienced practitioners over the world. Here is what Sandro Mancuso shared with us just few days before I TAKE Unconference 2014, where he is present for the second time. Where did you get the idea for London Software Craft Community […]
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This article was initially published in Today Software Magazine, no 23. The authors are: Adrian Bolboacă and Alexandru Bolboacă. The natural career of a software developer is: junior programmer, senior programmer, technical lead / team leader, optionally architect and then it turns into management. There’s something paradoxical about this path: the career that started with
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Not long ago, one of my colleaques asked me what is the way that helps me more to learn. My quick answer was “Through stories”. I was sure about it because I have an experience to confirm it. This experience was the talk that Rebecca Wirfs-Brock have given last year at I TAKE Unconference. It
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Until recently, I tought I didn’t like Functional Programming (FP). I like OOP and DDD. During university I was in love with Java and I hated Haskel and Prolog. This changed last year at I T.A.K.E. Unconference when Cyrille Martraire showed us that using FP can be easy with DDD and its advantages are great
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The first time I have heard the word kata I was a child and I was watching a Jackie Chan film. The fighters were doing karate kata in order to practice and improve their skills and technique. My second encounter with this word was last year at I T.A.K.E. Unconference. There was a big poster
Modern applications are interconnected, depending on public services from one or more external applications. At the same time, applications change often. Their public services are very likely to change also. When this happens, our application has to continue working correctly. How can we know it does? The answer is by having automated tests for all
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In about six weeks I’ll attend the second edition of I T.A.K.E. Unconference. “Preparing” for it, I decided to take a look at the videos for some of the talks that I missed last year. Today, I watched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Dealing with Smelly Code by Radu Marinescu. Watching it
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(Originally published on flaviusstef.wordpress.com) This week I attended the Optional Conference organized in Budapest. Below you can find my notes. My talk on the Agile Mindset I gave a talk at the conference comparing the agile and the traditional mindset. It’s the stuff I’ve written about in a paper earlier this week. Here’s the presentation from the conference. Notes
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Last night, in Bucharest, technical leaders, software architects, managers and people interested in technical leadership practices met at TechHub. It was a special event where they found out: technical leadership practices a bit about how to learn them a bit about how to apply them Alexandru Bolboaca welcomed the audience with a few words about the main challenges
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We have been doing Agile for over 10 years now and we have been focusing on people, interactions, team building, the ecosystem. As a result, we are now working in a software environment where “processes are more important than technical practices”. This is how Sandro Mancusso started his keynote at ITAKE Unconference 2013, a talk that was very appreciated
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