Introduction
In the 2018 Advent of Code challenged I solved all the puzzles in Groovy. It is pretty obvious, that choosing good data structure is the most important to obtain Read more
In the 2018 Advent of Code challenged I solved all the puzzles in Groovy. It is pretty obvious, that choosing good data structure is the most important to obtain Read more
Kotlin allows you to put method implementation in an interface. The same mechanism can be found in Java interfaces as default methods (and also Groovy or Scala traits). Read more
So, Russia 2018 World Cup is over. There were lots of good moments, and some worse (especially for us, here in Poland….). But is there something we can learn from this event as programmers? Recently, I had a few free evenings and played a bit with a World Cup API. In this post I want to show you what is Clojure way of dealing with REST APIs and when it beats other languages in this field.
Complaining and doing nothing to solve a problem. That’s what everybody does on the Internet. And that’s precisely what I am going to do. Why? Read more
At TouK we have so called TouK's Thursday Breakfast. It's name comes from King Stanisław II August's idea of Thursday Dinners. Our implementation is as a breakfast as it takes time at 10 am.
We gather from time to time on Thursday to discuss some interesting topics that are non-technical. For example we summarize projects, discuss important events in company's life, etc.
Technical topics we discuss on Fridays during TouK Weekly Workshops.
This time we tried to activate all employees to share thier sources of knowledge - interesting Internet addresses: pages, blogs, vlogs etc. It could be done with an "ordinary" Google Forms poll but we love to do it differently. We've made a voting cards and voting box.
We've put it in the kitchen and made a call to action with special posters.
On that very day most of the company came and we've discussed all proposals.
There were two hosts - me and my colleague Tomasz. We've pulled out every card and asked the author to say a few words about this particular knowledge source. We've also presented this page on projector wall. Lot's of new ideas appeared.
But where's the fun?
This was a surprise for all. Me and Tomasz were disguised as company owners. We were acting like them even with some typical gestures. People were laughting all the time and it was really nice.
Some tips and takeaways?
Sure!
Grande finale
I really encourage you to share knowledge. It doesn't have to be so serious and boring.
The enum class with instance method in Kotlin is quite similar to its Java version, but they are look a bit different Read more
The Distributed Monolith term surely has a bad press. When you read through blogs and conference talks I’m sure you’d better build a “traditional” monolith rather that Read more
The object
keyword in Kotlin creates singleton in a very convenient way. It can be used for example as a state of an operation. Spock Framework is one of the most expressive Read more
Brand new Spring Boot 2.0 has just been released and TouKs couldn’t wait to try it in the production. One of the newly added features that we investigated was Read more