This is what I learned in November 2015:
- In the JavaMagazin I read about design-types.net, a questionnaire to determine the type of developer you are. Answering only a couple of questions, this website characterized me as an “author” which means that I design my code like a novel - “well thought out and still elegant”. Here’s an article with more details. I agree with all of these points and would have characterized myself in the same way. I also think the nice batch-like emblem you get by filling out the test is a nice addition to every office door. :)
- I visited my first coderetreat (and blogged about it here).
- At the coderetreat, I noticed an interesting thing about how I think. Implementing the game of life and also before in other projects, I tend to “think in Java”. The first thoughts about solving a problem are “What classes do I need?”, “What does the architecture look like?” and so on. All Java-specific things, not problem-related at all. Maybe I should start with the problem more often. While implementing the game of life for example, I could start to write business logic that decides if a cell is going to survive instead of implementing the cell class. Maybe coding Java for such a long time has spoiled me somehow and it’s time to learn a new language.
- Installed the Firefox plugin Ghostery which blocks trackers and cookies on the pages you visit. These trackers help create profiles of users by monitoring the pages you visit. I also have Adblock Plus installed, but I think everyone has that.
- I finished writing one article for every talk I visited at the Java Forum Nord. Here’s an overview:
- Keynote by Adam Bien
- “Reflecting Software Architectures” by Stefan Zörner
- “Yes we scan - Software analysis with JQAssistant” by Dirk Mahler (blog post by Dirk Mahler himself)
- “Mastering legacy code in x simple steps” by Falk Sippach
- “Swimming upstream in the container revolution: Containerless Continuous Delivery” by Bert Jan Schrijver
- “Functional Programming in Java 8” by Nicole Rauch
- “Where has my software architecture gone?” by Oliver Gierke
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