Taking Learning Notes in GitHub Equals Sharing Knowledge
Completing my LinkedIn profile, I discovered the projects feature that let’s you list past projects, and promptly added some GitHub references. It is interes...
Software Craftsmanship
HackTalk News 2023
This article is about my German-speaking event HackTalk, which is why it is written in German. Das vergangene Jahr war vermutlich für uns alle aufregend. Fü...
Counter Corona - Pair-Program everything!
As most of us, my developer team and I are doing things quite different these days. For future readers: The Corona virus holds the whole world hostage. To st...
Agile Management Innovations
Somehow, I came across this great article about what to do to build a great work environment in an agile enterprise. In this short reflection, I want to high...
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5 Observations at Coderetreats
Recently, I facilitated another coderetreat. As in previous retreats, the participants who experienced their first coderetreat showed a pretty similar behavi...
Java Forum Nord 2016 - tdlcr - Test Driven Legacy Code Refactoring by Falk Sippach
This article is part of a series about Java Forum Nord 2016, a conference that took place in Hannover, Germany. Links to articles about other talks I visited...
What is the Golden Master Technique
In preparation of my new workshop, I read about the Golden Master technique in detail. Because this is an important method to deal with legacy code and is ea...
The First Get Together Of Me And My Remote Team
Last week included a very important appointment: The first Get Together of me, another teammate here in Germany and my remote-working team. I saw most of the...
Project Draft IT-Mentor-Hub
Since a couple of months, I have an idea that I cannot implement because of other priorities. It’s about a project regarding mentoring in the IT. I understan...
How to Work in a Remote Team
Since the beginning of this year I’m working in a remote team. There are two developers in Romania and me in Germany. To successfully develop software in thi...
design-types.net - I Am An Author
The other day I read an article in the Java Magazin which was about the different types of software developers. The page design-types.net offers a test whi...
My first Coderetreat
Yesterday was the Global Day of Coderetreat and I spend it like it should be spent: I visited my very first coderetreat, organized by JUG Ostfalen. The slog...
I am a Senior Professional
A couple of months ago, a disruptive event changed not only the project I worked in but also the way I think of my customers. This article illustrates my tho...
Care About the Business of Your Customer
Yesterday, I ended my subscription of the magazine “Auto Motor Sport”, one of the big German journals about automotive and racing sports. I will continue rea...
Full-Time Event in Another City - Arrive a Day Early and Depart a Day Late
Given you visit a full-time event in another city, maybe a fair or a conference. What do you do when that event comes to an end? Do you rush to the airport t...
New Mission Statement For My Work As A Software Developer
There have been a lot of changes in the last months. My work as an employed software developer kind of got to a new level because of the changes in my projec...
Writing Great Software vs The Reality of Commercial Software Development
In the past year 2013, I made several proposals to improve software development in my project. Some of them got implemented, like having agile meetings with ...
An Item of Our Team Culture - The Gollum.
The other day I returned from lunch and I found Gollum sitting on my screen. Gollum is a little toy figure that is given to a developer in case he caused pro...
Using your Mentoring Group as Peer Reviewer
One of my favorite concepts of self development is mentoring. My current mentor started mentoring me two years ago and has two mentees in total. One of the r...
My First Achitectural Kata
This week, I practiced my first architectural kata (alternative link) with my mentor Jens Schauder and my co-mentee Thomas. These katas are meant to practice...