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Lessons Learned in July 2017

13 Aug 2017
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in July 2017:

Lessons Learned in June 2017

07 Jul 2017
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in June 2017:

Running test coverage of multiple modules in IntelliJ IDEA

29 Jun 2017
Posted by Steven

I keep forgetting how to get the overall test coverage of multiple modules in IntelliJ IDEA. There are several ways, here's my favorite:

You can test this by cloning my tiny test repository.

Working in the sweet spot

28 Jun 2017
Posted by Steven

Yesterday, I was working at the office. This is an unusual thing for me to do because since a couple of months, I'm working from home. My 6-headed team consists of three developers in Romania, one business consultant working from home in Hannover, one part-time project lead working from different places and me. It really makes no sense for the whole team or even the three of us living in Germany to share an office. So we are working from wherever we like.

Pragmatic software engineering = "UNPHAT"

26 Jun 2017
Posted by Steven

I just read an article a friend tweeted: "You are not Google" by Ozan Onay. One of the concepts described is UNPHAT. Quoted from the article:

Next time you find yourself Googling some cool new technology to (re)build your architecture around, I urge you to stop and follow UNPHAT instead:

Herbstcampus 2016 - Git in the context of Visual Studio and TFS

19 Jun 2017
Posted by Steven

This article is part of a series about Herbstcampus 2016, a conference that took place in Nürnberg, Germany. Links to articles about other talks I visited there can be found below.

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