Each time I think about the problem with feedback, I recall the famous presentation of Erik Meijer “One hacker way“, when he says about the system developed without a proper feedback – no feedback loop – summed up with a sentence “That’s how Microsoft Office Ribbon was born”. I think I can see this Microsoft-Ribbon problem everywhere, not only at work but also in life. People tend to underestimate how much is it important to give, but also to receive feedback properly. It might also be that they...

I have met and talked to a lot of developers in my life. I went through the whole lifecycle of software production many times. People have changed, but the projects that have been implemented, are happily still running in production (at least most of them, let’s say :)). What I have noticed during this period of over 10 years working with the software and people producing it, is that many developers have quite a strange approach to work. In IT there’s this request type called “Fire and forget”, ...

A few weeks ago,  on my way to the .NET Developer Days conference, I had a thought that I must be getting old. That’s because the only book I took with myself was about parenting 🙂 Before, usually, it was something really technical that I don’t have time for and somehow I plan to catch up on the train or in the hotel. I had an interesting conclusion for the first time in my life, that actually putting the hard work to become a better parent, all the lessons learned through the period of raisin...

Code Europe – About the Conference The last conference I’m going to attend this year will be Code Europe. The event will take place on 13th of December 2017 in the Congress Center of Centennial Hall in Wrocław. I will attend the conference in Wrocław where I’m living, so the agenda will be from this perspective. The conference takes also place in Kraków and Warsaw on the other dates, but I won’t be writing about it. Organizers claim that it is the biggest programming conference in Poland, which ...