10 things you can do to better lead your agile team

I'm a developer and I'm proud of that. However I know that sooner or later the time will come to lead some project. That's why I'm always observing my managers and trying to learn from them. But learning only from local managers is not enough for me. I'm curious about top management trends in the world, what good practices managements rock stars presents on conferences. I have found several good talks about it and I would like to share with you one of them.

London Droidcon 2012 review

Month ago I had a pleasure to participate in Droidcon 2012 in London. For me it was new and very exciting experience for two reasons. First - it was my first big international event in which I participated. Second - I was a volunteer and I had possibility to see how such a conference looks from a backstage.

This confusing Java...

Today evening I was playing around with Java and collections. After a while I finished with a funny code.

Rails architecture by Uncle Bob

I don't know Dear Reader how many Rails applications have you written in your life, but I have only one. However from the very beginning I had this feeling that something is wrong. Unfortunately I was not able to find a clear answer what is wrong and how I can make it better. Then I have found this presentation...

Beautiful code - review

A few days ago I have finished reading 'Beautiful Code'. It is a book that gathers 34 articles written by well-known software designers and edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson. The intention of Oram's and Wilson's was to create a book where IT stars will show how they attack some specific problem and provide elegant and clear solutions. So idea for this book was really noble. What about realization ?