Some of the opinions presented here may be right, others may be wrong but all of them should be interesting.
Yesterday Claudia Rosu and I organized the first autumn Bucharest agile meetup. We had decided to organize it with an open space format, but it ended up to be half about organizing an open space and half actually practicing the format.
One year ago, I had the chance to be invited to speak at the second edition of Agile Portugal. I had no idea back then, but my view on software architecture was about to change for good.
When I was a boy the most common car in Romania was Dacia. Compared with modern cars, it is awful. It looks quite bad, you need a lot of force to steer it, putting it into reverse gear is a mix of force and accuracy and you are lucky if it starts when it’s cold outside. It requires a lot of maintenance or it will stop working. The bodywork erodes in a few years and it needs special...
I am sure that by now you have heard about Steve Jobs and his premature death. Here’s something you probably haven’t heard about. Dennis Ritchie died this week. You probably never heard of him. I never heard of him until today, showing once again that I’m guilty of the developer sin #3. And the sad thing about it is that Steve Jobs might not have become the person we know if it...
Something about special people always moves me. That something is passion. Steve Jobs was from the beginning in the middle of a revolution that completely changed the world. At that time, it took real courage and burning passion to push for ideas that most people didn’t understand – and yet everyone uses today. I admire him for keeping the passion alive over the years. His push for...