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5 observations at coderetreats

03 Sep 2017
Posted by Steven

Recently, I facilitated another coderetreat. As in previous retreats, the participants who experienced their first coderetreat showed a pretty similar behavior. It occurred to me, that nearly EVERY coderetreat-first-timer shows the exact same behavior. This article is about how people will act, what they will code and what they most likely will learn during their first coderetreat.

Git: To squash or not to squash?

30 Aug 2017
Posted by Steven

Until recently, I told my team to squash all of their commits on a given feature branch to just one commit. Every feature branch consisted of just this one commit and could be integrated into develop so that develop read just like a sequence of features. After further consideration, I changed that. Here are reasons for both approaches:

Pro-Squash:

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.

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