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lessons learned in December 2017

01 Jan 2018
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in December 2017:

Manager's schedule and creator's schedule

18 Dec 2017
Posted by Steven

In the great book "Tools of Titans" by Tim Ferris, I read about manager’s schedule and creator's schedule. In this article, I explain the difference between both and how I use them.

lessons learned in November 2017

13 Dec 2017
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in November 2017:

lessons learned in October 2017

10 Nov 2017
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in October 2017:

  1. Until now, I used query methods in Spring Data JPA only for reading. However, also updates can be written in repositories:

lessons learned in September 2017

18 Oct 2017
Posted by Steven

This is what I learned in September 2017:

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.

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