Another business meeting, another company presentation?

You are going to attend another typical networking event during which the representatives from various companies will present their companies’ strengths and advantages of cooperating with them. You will join the ranks of the prominent speakers. Are you sure you want to be one of them and blend in with this crowd? What makes you think your presentation will stick in their minds or be at least remembered by the audience the following day? The answer is simple “ Astonish them”!

In GOYELLO we are always trying to use all the best tools and practices available. Currently, we are evaluating the Agile methodology with the SCRUM’s, sprints and all other things related to it. This post opens the series of short articles about Agile and how I am experiencing it. Let’s start!

After a few simple queries in Google I have to conclude that Polish government sites aren’t secure enough. We can easily use “Google Hacking” to access a range of  information about server paths, databases configurations etc. Because of my findings I decided to write a post about “secure error reporting” in web applications.

Search engine optimization is now a way of life for website developers. The idea is not new, and most people building websites realize that inclusion of keywords on their site will ensure its high ranking in searches. Using keywords in a website is effective, but the misuse of keywords can lead to serious issues with search engines that index your site as they can have your site banned. Observing the following five rules will minimize the risk of getting into difficulties with search engines.

Based on hundreds of CVs I have scanned throughout my developer hiring career I fully agree that a good CV is a key to success! The purpose of a CV is to provide a recruiter with as much relevant information as necessary in the most approachable and cohesive manner. This is not always the case though. I have noticed a number of mistakes on CVs that in the case of some companies may spoil the chances of even the best man for the job. Here, at GOYELLO, we try not to be so strict and not jump at conclusions too hastily.

4developers conference aims to become the biggest conference for developers in Poland. That’s why four independent paths where available to choose from: Java, IT Project Management, .NET & C# and last but not least – Dedicated Languages. As I’m a PHP Development Manager at GOYELLO, and I was mainly interested in IT Project Management and Dedicated Languages. The first name is self-explanatory and the later covered topics related to PHP, Ruby, Python and other (f.e. Scala).

Monika Rosińska “Trudna sztuka motywowania pracowników IT” – “Tough art of motivating IT employees”

On this special presentation Monika Rosinska outlined how it is when there are conflicts and dissatisfied employees in the Company. To her opinion and I also agree with that, it is almost impossible to motivate the person without his internal ‘green light’ of doing this. Therefore motivating is more a way of understanding, what blocks certain person from being the most creative and productive. In general it is a matter of fulfilling the needs. If specific person has many basic needs that are not eased, then he is more and more unhappy. Since that moment the person stops giving and starts only taking.

Szymon Pobiega, VSoft “Inversion of Control in systems built using the Domain Object Model”

Generally, the Inversion of Control (IoC) architecture can be explained with the term “onion architecture”. What is the difference between the regular MVC architecture and the mysterious “onion”? In MVC we allow communication between layers externally (for instance the View layer can sometimes communicate with the Model layer). That is not happening in IoC because they we are allowing communication with nearby layers only. The second difference is in the level of coupling. In standard MVC where we have no interfaces between layers, we are highly coupled. Of course we can also encapsulate the layers into interfaces and then make it less coupled. But this is not the only improvement in IoC.