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.

This is my first post on this blog – Me (Maciej Gren), Peter Horsten and Kuba have decided to join our ideas and share them here. Probably, in the near future some new people will join this blog to express their own thoughts here.
First of all, it was a long day. We started at 9 with registering at the conference – 4Developers. Me, as a .Net developer and currently Operational Manager,decided to attend mainly the .Net track.

Today’s 4Developers conference in Kraków is being organised for the first time. The organizers plan to make this the biggest event for software developers in Poland. Therefore, we had to attend this conference. The event is well organised and there are quite a lot of visitors. More important of course is that up to now there are interesting presentations as well. A little draw back for the international guests is the fact that most of the presentations are in Polish.

After a long train trip we arrived at Kraków Central Station. We, Kuba, Maciej and Peter, are here to visit the first 4Developers event. The biggest seminar four software developers all over Europe. Although we have a long and intensive day tomorrow, we wanted to visit the Old Town.