Everyone is potentially a teacher

In order to learn from others I must trust them and open my mind enough to see them as potential teachers even if  they are – apparently – less experienced than me in certain knowledge area. The lessons to be learned may not necessarily come from the...

XP Team Building

Let the team walk its path Every team walks at its own pace and I haven’t found a way to speed it up myself, I don’t think there is one regardless of whether you are an external coach or a regular member of the team. Trying to push the team will screw up...

ES6 + browserify + babel + gulp + jasmine

During Socrates Conference 2015 we decided that it’s the right time to jump in ES6 to developer a green field project that our customer is starting. Given that ES6 is already the stable and latest version of JavaScript, it does not make sense to start a new...

Notes from Socrates 2015

The 5th Socrates Conference in Germany has been my first continental Socrates Conference (I’ve been to UK twice plus another one in the Canaries). What a mind blowing unconference! I got even more value from Socrates than I expected! this has been the biggest in...