Lobotomy to your object oriented thinking – “Elegant Objects, volume 1” book review
Step one in the transformation of a successful procedural developer into a successful object developer is a lobotomy. (by David West) This is the first sentence in “Elegant Objects, volume 1” book by...
5 Reasons for Every Developer Reading Books to Join Goodreads
Goodreads – a website for a book readers and why you should care
My Impressions After Advanced Data Structures at Coursera
Short summary after I have finished “Advanced Data Structures in Java” at Coursera
6 things you should remember after GeeCON 2015
1200 developers, 75 speakers, 80 talks and 6 important things to remember
The Apprenticeship Patterns – book review
130 pages to help you nurture your passion and become a better developer. Pretty good deal, isn’t it?
GeeCON 2014 – Brain dump, Day 3
Last, third post with my notes from GeeCON 2014 conference. Pretty short? I am not going to justify myself, but it was third day and everyone was a bit tired after two intensive days and nights in Cracow. Tomasz...
GeeCON 2014 – Brain dump, Day 2
The second part of my notes from GeeCON 2014 conference. Day two was the most interesting and richest day of the conference so are the notes. Hazem Saleh – Jasmine Automated Tests for JavaScript Testing...
GeeCON 2014 – Brain dump, Day 1
Inspired by post “Min/max note taking for conferences” I’ve noted down my impressions, most interesting sentences, mentioned tools/books/blogs during ongoing GeeCON 2014 conference. This is my ”Brain dump” after...
Deep dive into AngularJS – my review of “Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS”
First, complete book about AngularJS. Pretty good, very useful and written by our fellow man from Poland. Could I ask for more?
Oprogramowanie szyte na miarę – recenzja książki
Bardzo fajna książka na temat, który jest często zaniedbywany przez programistów: komunikacji z klientem.
Agile By Example 2013 – review
Notes, thoughts and comments after my first agile conference in my career. Few interesting ideas, some already known approaches. Anyway, I do not regret being there.
Instant AngularJS Starter – book review
Some time ago I have received an offer from Packt Publishing to write a review of their new small book about AngularJS framework “Instant AngularJS Starter”. And because I still consider myself as a AngularJS...
Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito – review
Book “Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito” (website) covers wide spectrum of knowledge about testing in Java environment using aforementioned libraries. But if you prefer JUnit over TestNG or PowerMock...
“We will always be there for you” – my relation from Devoxx 2011
Last week I had a pleasure to attend Devoxx conference, the biggest and one of the most known event for Java developers. As a member of 7-man team from our company (thank you SoftwareMill 🙂 ) I spent 4 days in...
Warsjawa 2011 tuż tuż
Jak co roku, w październiku rusza kolejna konferencja organizowana przez Warszawski JUG, młodsza siostra Confitury, czyli Warsjawa. Edycja 2011 przynosi sporo zmian i generalnie widać, że przez rok całej...
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning – how to think consciously about thinking and learning
I recently have finished reading one of the best non-IT books I had in my hands, “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning” by Andy Hunt. Because there are already a lot of reviews on the Internet (e.g....
Crowded conferences 2011 calendar in Poland and Wicket author talk at 33rdDegree
This year seems to be really great for those Java Developers here in Poland who want to learn and listen about new technologies, methodologies, etc. at conference meetings. When I examined conferences calendar I...
Programming books in English with free worldwide delivery, repost
Few days ago in the discussion in Polish LinkedIn-like portal GoldenLine about constant learning for people working in the IT, delivery costs from Amazon to Poland and ebooks appeared that only small group of...
The life cycle of servlet
Life cycle of servlet from the perspective of the container After start, the container is looking for servlet classes in the appropriate directory (for Apache Tomcat would be $ TOMCAT_HOME / webapps) . Once they...
Konferencja z koziołkami w tle, czyli 4Developers w Poznaniu
W piątek miałem przyjemność uczestniczyć w konferencji 4Developers w Poznaniu. Wyprawa na godzinę 10 wymagała bardzo porannej pobudki, aby samochodem zebrać ekipę z całej Warszawy i wyruszyć polskimi drogami do...
Wicket – useful links
Inspired by posts with useful links at blog by Piotr Paradziński I decided to create similar one with package containing interesting materials about Wicket and accompanying libraries. I am going to update this post...
Finally my SCWCD mission completed
Much later than planned (check my post when I revealed intent to pass SCWCD) I managed to get this certificate. The result (94%) is in my opinion more than good 🙂 Preparations began fairly long time ago (over a...
Java i programowanie – jak zacząć i z czego się uczyć
Ostatnio kilku moich znajomych ze studiów pytało mnie w rozmowach od czego zaczynałem naukę Javy, co mogę polecić, jakie książki warto przeczytać i gdzie w internecie można znaleźć dobre materiały i tutoriale....
Effective Java – make your code better – book review
Recently I bought book I wanted to read for a long time, polish translation of “Effective Java (2nd edition)” by Joshua Bloch. I found many very positive opinions and reviews (some from Amazon) about this title and...
Javarsovia 2009 – wrażenia
Właśnie wróciłem z konferencji Javarsovia 2009. Ogólne wrażenia jak najbardziej pozytywne, dokładniejsza relacja poniżej. Najbardziej żałuję, że nie udało się mi wyciągnąć tylu znajomych ilu chciałem, no i że nie...
Let’s Start Preperations to SCWCD
Here are some useful links, materials and books which I am going to use while preparing to Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD): Head First Servlets and JSP, Second Edition book Java Servlet 2.4...
My Impressions After Passing SCJP
It’s been some time since I passed my Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) version 1.5, but maybe this post will help somebody to choose his way to prepare to this exam and also increase his chances to score...