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We’ve seen many developers struggling with incremental and iterative development, and the general solution is to stay longer on the problem than you’re used to. Watch this video to learn a few techniques for doing so. Alex Bolboaca is a programmer, CTO, author, trainer and coach at Mozaic Works. Visit the channel and subscribe

Happy New Year everybody! Thank you so much for being with us, and more interesting videos are coming soon! Christmas Tree video: Video by viziter from pixabay https://pixabay.com/videos/christmas-tree-christmas-holiday-54032/ Visit the channel and subscribe

In this video we talk a bit about the channel evolution and our plans for the next year. Thank you so much for being with us, and more interesting videos are coming soon! Visit the channel and subscribe

This video was recorded in December 2021, at the time when an injection vulnerability was found in log4j2, affecting a lot of developers and systems around the world. It is not meant as a critique of log4j2 developers, or of open source, but rather discusses the systemic issue of trust in 3rd party libraries, defined

Programming is more than just a technical activity – it’s a communication activity. This is an excerpt from a longer discussion with Kevlin Henney. You can find the full video here: https://youtu.be/Hff1dv5Q4FY Alex Bolboaca is a programmer, CTO, author, trainer and coach at Mozaic Works. Visit the channel and subscribe

Watch this excerpt to learn about the fascinating interwoven history of Personal Computers and Smalltalk. This excerpt is part of a longer conversation that you can watch here https://youtu.be/t3sEyIjQVHA. Alex Bolboaca is a programmer, CTO, author, trainer and coach at Mozaic Works. Allen Wirfs-Brok is an expert in programming languages and their implementation with broad

This is an excerpt from an episode of the Countercurrent podcast hosted by prof. Roger Kneebone. Listen to full podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/alexandru-bolboaca-in-conversation-with-roger-kneebone/id1121211583?i=1000532112141 Visit the channel and subscribe

Team agreements, or the social contract of a team, is a very useful tool to use when starting with self-organizing teams. Self-organizing means that the team has a lot of freedom in the way they structure their work, but this sometimes leads to conflicts or friction within the team. One solution to avoid these conflicts

What is intuition? How to use it? How do you enhance it? What are its problems? Watch Alex Bolboaca share his understanding of this topic, inspired from his teaching and consulting experience and books on behavioral psychology, design and decision making in different domains, and logical fallacies. The information presented is simplified. If you want

How did a pioneer of OOP think about it? And how was Smalltalk different? Watch this excerpt of a longer chat with Rebecca Wirfs-Brock about the fundamental ideas behind OOP. Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/RsOH9solGdE Rebecca Wirfs-Brock is an internationally recognized leader in the development of effective software design and architecture techniques. Among her