Just stop for a moment

I know there are deadlines in front of you that need to be met. They are the reason why you keep writing code. They are the cause of your lack of time - you are running from one deliverable to another, trying to deliver as fast as possible. Trying to deliver with the highest quality possible.

Refactoring vs. Redesign

It often happens that developers use words Refactoring and Redesign interchangeably. Why? I think that is because in both cases we are ending with the same result - code that is changed, but it does exactly the same thing as it was capable of doing at the beginning of the process.

Yet, in my opinion those words are not exact synonymous and before we will start to refactor the code it is good to know the difference.

Hack Yeah - Attack on the Guinness World Record!

So many things happens recently! This time I have got a pleasure to invite you on HackYeah!

Where: Tauron Arena Krakow
When: 27-29 October 2017 
Topic: Extreme life
More details: Facebook page

The main goal is your own interpretation of the EXTREME. 
Gather your fellow developers (team <= 6 devs), don't hesitate and just be there


See you soon!


PS I've got some free tickets, so if you want to go there and still don't have it just write to me on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or in any other way you prefer.

Market spoiled us!

It’s been too long since my last article. During this time I’ve changed my job, were on couple conferences, conducted some trainings. I was pretty active. I just didn’t have too much time for writing. However, each conference and training is a possibility to talk with many various people and that results in plenty of ideas for future articles.

Ok, let’s move forward.

Today I want to share with you some observations regarding the state of the IT industry. Recently I’ve been thinking about it quite a lot. And the more I thought, the more convinced I was about my suspicions - the market spoiled us!

We are getting too confident, harsh and demanding. We are getting lazy in a bad way. And we're getting less and less attached to the things we do.

Byte My Code - 7 października, Wrocław

Witam po dłuższej nieobecności i od razu zapraszam 7 października do Wrocławia na nową konferencję Javową ByteMyCode, której organizatorem jest UBS, a o której patronat zostałem poproszony.

Jeżeli macie ochotę posłuchać co mają do powiedzenia m.in. Josh Long, Kirk Pepperdine, Michał Kordasa to nie zwlekajcie i się rejestrujcie. 
Oczywiście gorąco zapraszam również na moją prezentację, podczas której opowiem Wam o zakamarkach Event Processingu.


Do zobaczenia niebawem!

PS. Mam jedną darmową wejściówkę, którą chętnie oddam. Co trzeba zrobić? Wystarczy skontaktować się ze mną w jakikolwiek sposób (Twitter, Facebook, komentarz pod postem, itp.). 
Kto pierwszy, ten lepszy :)

Pair Programming to the rescue once again!

Some time ago I wrote how pair programming can help keep high quality of the code. But that’s not all!

Today I want to explain why you should practice pair programming to onboard a new joiner. It makes the whole process faster and more efficient.

The code that does not have to be written

Do you know which code is best? It’s the one that does not have to be written at all!

As developers we often solve non-trivial problems. We have to analyze and understand each important aspect of a problem. Then we have to “convert” the result of such analysis into code. This code has to meet all the requirements. It has to be understandable. To achieve this, we talk about design and structure of the code and sometimes challenge it to make it better. And after a while we are there, with a clear picture in our heads. Now the funny part begins, now’s the time for coding!