Commitment

My new year commitment is to read a book every month and write a review on this blog

Book

So the first book is Groovy Recipes by Scott Davis. This book was easy to read. I read it fast. Very fast. Mostly because I know more or less about Groovy. There was one maybe two things that was new to me. So I think this book w is not good for developers with some Groovy experience.

Besides that book was very well organized. In each chapter we could find answer to to the problem related to chapter title. 

This book need an update. It was written in 2008. A lot changed since then. For example maven building style. 

I will definitely recommend this book to my friends who would like to start using Groovy quickly. 

My rate is 4 of 5 starts.

Agile By Example is over. It was good three days. Organizers do they’s best. There was great organization, good internet acces and good food. Jeff Suterland keynote was average. For me the real keynote was given by Sandro Moncuso “Software craftsmanship”.

In the second day, good speach gave Jurgen Appelo and Tom Gilb. Tom Gilb presentation was challenging. Slides were awful. Tom marked many times that we must deliver value. Remember that value may be delivered without single line of code. One of the tools that Tim presented was “Value Decision Tables” which may look as sophisticated Excel system. But Krzysztof Jelski, on the next day presented “Impact Mapping” tool which was very easy to use.

I’ve meet Agile from a new perspective. It was good for me that I’ve joined this conference.

Thank you SoftwareMill and Touk for this event.

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On July 10, there was an event called “Scalania“. A group of Scala developers and Scala “wannabe” developers, meet at Warsaw University Of Technology. We were solving 99-scala problems. Result of our work can be found at bitbucket.

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