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...
Elon Musk – an amazing entrepreneur and a difficult person – book review
Elon Musk and his vision to make humans a Multiplanetary Species
Varidesk – an Adjustable Standing Desk – Review
My impressions after six months with Varidesk standing desk
My Impressions After Advanced Data Structures at Coursera
Short summary after I have finished “Advanced Data Structures in Java” at Coursera
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...
There is so much I need to know that I didn’t know that I need to know – notes after reading “Information Diet” book
During 33rd Degree conference in Cracow O’Reilly had its stand with books in very attractive prices and similarly to previous year I couldn’t resist to buy something. This time I decided to get “The Information...
Human side of Agile methodology – review of “Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide”
Some time ago, after I had written a review of The Clean Coder I received a tweet from @InformIT saying that they liked my review. And then, after a few e-mails with person from Pearson I received three selected...
“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...
The Clean Coder, another great book from Robert C. Martin
Some time ago I found very interesting InformIT page with eBook Deal of the Day, where you can buy IT ebook for only 9,99$. Every 24h (or sometimes a bit longer) they change a title you can get for this amazing...
Sobotnia mobilizacja na Mobilizację
W sobotę w Łodzi odbyła się pierwsza edycja konferencji Mobilization organizowanej przez JUG z tego miasta. Ponieważ w tematyce technologii mobilnych czuję się mocno zielony i poza warsztatami z Androida na...
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....
Why we don’t like public speeches and what can be done about it
The first step to eliminate your weaknesses is to realise that they exist and name them. I know I am not good when it comes to public speech. My diploma thesis is quite good, source code isn’t so bad at all, but...
JDD 2010 from my perspective
A few days ago I attended a Java Developers’ Day 2010 conference in Cracow. If someone ask me to sum this event I would tell: not bad but definitely not very good. I think that popularity of Java conferences in...
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...
Java Developers’ Day 2009 moimi oczami
Siedzę sobie w pociągu relacji Kraków-Warszawa, za oknem już ciemno, pogoda z tych raczej dołujących, ale na szczęście PKP tym razem spisało się na medal i w przedziale jest ciepło i (o dziwo!) nie jesteśmy...
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...