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If you were hit by a bus tomorrow… If you were hit by a bus tomorrow (knock on wood) would your project get stuck? I still remember when one I worked on did. Well, I wasn’t exactly hit by the bus, but from the project standpoint, it was close enough. We worked on an important
I made an estimate… I took part in many projects, but there is one I particularly remember… As soon as I joined the team technical lead gave me a white paper with requirements and asked for estimates of a new functionality. Totally new. I was asked to estimate a chunk of the system (I had
Mind reading and predicting future techniques aren’t fully developed yet. So lot’s of software development projects is late. It get’s better when the agile processes are successfully adapted but it’s not always the case. There’s always more work to be done in the project than we initially predicted. Business needs change, we misunderstand the expectations, estimation
It’s not the ink—it’s the think “It’s not the ink—it’s the think,” wrote Robert Mankoff (New Yorker cartoon editor), answering to the question how to get ideas for cartoons by people who want to submit them to The New Yorker. “There really is no trick—you just have to think of them” he said. It’s the same in creating
The production system broke last Tuesday… I got a phone call last Tuesday around 8 pm. The operator told me a daily task broke in the production and I had to take care of it as soon as possible. I turned on my laptop and connected to the customer’s system. I checked the error logs and
Last Sunday I’ve talked to a friend. She just recently picked up Java. We’re about to start a learning experiment: she is going to learn how to write code in Java, I’m going to help. Work out a plan and set up exercises. I decided to blog about what we’re doing here. The “learning” posts will be visible
This year I’ve explored Java world again @DevoxxPL in Cracow. And whereas last year was full of the microservices and functional programming hype, this year was more steady. Microservices are still a dominant architectural trend. Aside from different aspects of Java (like an overview of Java 9, JVM Mechanics, JEE 8, Concurrency concepts, performance or
Thanks everyone for attending my presentation. If you have any questions or just want to talk over a cup of coffee don’t hestiate to contact me via your favourite means (I’m social!) Here are the slides from my presentation (avilable also on Speaker Deck)
It’ll be short today. And a little bit more personal 😉 I’m attending Devoxx Poland again this year – that was my first conference ever and I have to say that: it changed my career, showed me new paths, encouraged to learn things again. I think that’s what conferences are for. They encourage conststant learning and
Imagine yourself sitting in front of a compiler, tasked with fixing a small bug. But you know that as soon as you say “I’m finished,” another developer – or worse, your boss – will be examining your work. How do you feel? Anxious or encouraged? As software engineers, we take pride in our work (as well
