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 …
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 …
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 …
(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 …
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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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 …
Last night, in Bucharest, entrepreneurs, managers and people interested in focusing ideas towards realisation met at TechHub. It was a special event where they found out: What practical tools to use in their teams Which solutions help and support them in their day-to-day challenges Maria Diaconu welcomed the audience with a few words about innovation, entrepreneurship and …
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A few weeks ago, Flavius Stef and Alexandru Bolboaca organised a special meetup for the AgileWorks community in Bucharest. The topic of the meetup was Kanban and it had two parts. First, Flavius Stef and Alexandru Bolboaca presented what Kanban is and how to adopt it. In the second part of the meeting, free discussions organised as Open Space allowed attendees to learn more practical …
