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Apprenticeship Patterns
Apprenticeship Patterns. Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman by Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye has been lying on my bookshelf for quite a while. I expected a largely repetitive, buzz-driven...
View ArticleTwo Stories of Ignaz Semmelweis
Here’s two versions of the story of Ignaz Semmelweis. You may have heard it as it’s quite popular in the programming & craftsmanship community. I heard the two versions about a year apart and...
View Article33rd Degree 2012
After great success of the first edition of 33rd Degree I did not really need anyone to convince me to participate this year. I can honestly say that I’ve been waiting for it for a year, and it...
View ArticleIDEs of the Future
I suspect that by now everyone has seen Bret Victor’s “Inventing on Principle” talk. If you haven’t, here it is: Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo. I found it great and inspiring...
View ArticleSoftware for Use
Here’s confession of a full time software developer: I hate most software. With passion. Why I Hate Software Software developers and people around the process are often very self-centered and care more...
View ArticleCulture Kills (or Wins)
This post is about one of the things that everyone is aware of to some degree. It feels familiar, but the picture becomes a lot sharper once you put it in a proper perspective. The Project There is an...
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Learning to Fail
Back at university, when I dealt with much low-level problem solving and very basic libararies and constructs, I learned to pay attention to what can possibly go wrong. A lot. Implementing reliable,...
View ArticleDevDay 2012
On October 5, 2012 I attended the second edition of DevDay, a one-day conference sponsored and organized by ABB in Krakow. The Awesome Scott Hanselman was the first speaker, and also one of the main...
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“Cooking for Geeks” by Jeff Potter; O’Reilly Media
And now for something completely different… cooking! I’ve always been intrigued by “Cooking for Geeks”. I came across it several times, and finally when I saw it in O’Reilly Blogger Reviews program I...
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Human Error?
I’ve just watched Sidney Decker’s “System Failure, Human Error: Who’s to Blame” talk from DevOpsDays Brisbane 2014. It’s a very nice and worthwhile talk, though there is some noise. You can watch it...
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