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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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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Updated 21 Apr 2020: Replaced craftsmanship with craft Software development meetups, communities, conferences, unconferences, both free and paid are exploding in numbers. A few people think that these can be better. That no matter if the event is free or paid, it should feature a few characteristics to make it truly valuable for the attendees. This is why today we
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The article Agility over Agile, authors Alexandru Bolboaca and Adrian Bolboaca, is published in the Today Software Magazine, no 21. Agility over Agile Here’s a common situation nowadays: a large company learns about Agile and decides to adopt “agile processes”. The leadership team creates a transition plan that includes training, coaching, and consultancy. They monitor the advance by
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