Featured Tim Bourguignon: Mentoring Advocate, Chief Learning Officer, Public Speaker & Agile Coach Tim has been building synapses between human beings since 1983. Mentoring advocate, international public speaker, mentor and mentee, he works as Chief Learning Officer and Agile Coach for the MATHEMA Software GmbH company
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Featured SeeCFP.com Have you ever failed to submit to a conference call for paper, because you learned too late about it? This is unacceptable, and this is what SeeCFP is fixing for you. SeeCFP helps
DevJourney Lydia Hallie is following her passion... and other things I learned recording her DevJourney Lydia Hallie is a very young web developer, freelancer and online teacher. After interviewing her for the DevJourney podcast, here are the key takeways I personally took out of the discussion.
Learning How we show our new colleagues that we really care! "Welcome onboard. Here's your team, here's your workstation, there's your credentials, and most important, over here you can tap coffee. Questions? No? Time to get productive, hop! Hop!" Starting with a new company
DevJourney Denise Gosnell is working at the bleeding edge of data science... and other things I learned recording her DevJourney Denise Gosnell is the Chief Data Officer at DataStax. She holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Tennessee and a leading data science expert. After interviewing her for the DevJourney podcast, here are the key takeways I personally took out of the discussion.
DevJourney Jamison Dance implores you to be nice to other people... and other things I learned recording his DevJourney Jamison Dance is an engineering manager at Wallmart Labs and the co-host of the Soft-Skills Engineering Podcast. After interviewing him for the DevJourney podcast, here are the key takeways I personally took out of the discussion.
DevJourney Shedrack Akintayo went remote-first... and other things I learned recording his DevJourney Shedrack Akintayo is a remote web developer from Nigeria. After interviewing him for the DevJourney podcast, here are the key takeways I personally took out of the discussion.
BoardGame Pen & paper for the very little ones Do you have small children? Kids that are too young to start playing pen and paper role playing games because they cannot read yet? I've got a solution for you, keep on reading.
Mentoring is important, yet we don‘t speak about it Last week I did a poll on Twitter, asking the following question: "How important were mentors in your personal and professional life?"1/3 of the respondents said they were „crucial“ and 1/
DevJourney Molly Struve had a long winding journey to SRE... and other things I learned recording her DevJourney Molly had a winding path to dev. In the last years she specialized in Site Reliability Engineering and now works for Dev.to. After interviewing her for the DevJourney podcast, here are the key takeways I personally took out of the discussion
DevJourney Reuven Lerner made one of the first 100 websites... ever... and other things I learned recording his DevJourney Reuven Lerner is a consultant, an author and a teacher. After interviewing him for the DevJourney podcast, here are the key takeways I personally took out of the discussion.
Retrospective Do you like making New-Year's resolutions? Yeah... me neither. I like retrospectives though… I always find it boring to speak about New-Year resolutions on New-Year’s Eve. Better wait one week, let the euphoria settle down and THEN… avoid it some more, because no-one likes overreaching
DevJourney Pariss Athena learns jumping-in with both feet first... and other things I learned recording her DevJourney Pariss - Athena - Chandler did a lot in her relatively short career in software development. After interviewing her for the DevJourney podcast, here are the key takeways I personally took out of the discussion.
Down the DNS & SSL rabbit hole I went Boy, what a rabbit hole I just went down. Brace yourself for a story. I pulled one simple thread and woke up two weeks later with a brain full of learning and experience.
Podcast The story of how I ended up in Germany, and things I learned in the process A few weeks ago, I was interviewed on the Expats Life Germany podcast. Shaun, the host, moved from South Africa to Germany about a decade ago. He recently started this podcast to highlight
BoardGame Karmaka, a great board game that isn't so complicated after all This weekend, my son found the game "Karmaka" hidden somewhere at home. I bought this game in 2016 via Kickstarter. Back then, I spent 15 minutes trying to understand the rule-book and failed
iOS How to really get rid of those pesky iOS live-photos? Yesterday I got a nice email from Apple saying that I reached 48.9 GB of storage on my 50 GB iCloud Account and it is time to upgrade. To which I said.
Tech Setting up the new Windows Terminal I finally reactivated the Windows Insider fast ring on my Surface, to try out the new Windows Terminal. I must admit, I've rarely been that excited by a trailer for such a deeply
Talk Level-up your corporate presentations - Part 2 In the first article of this series, we discussed the preparatory steps to steer your new corporate presentation on the right path. Here's a summary of the tips provided: What are the 1-3
Talks Level-up your corporate presentations - Part 1 Complete the following sentence: "Corporate reports/presentations are _____ "What do you say? Boring? The worst? Debilitating? Annoying? Not engaging? That's how I often feel... Search the internet for tips on how to create
"My word is truth", a short story The ad of course never mentioned anything about losing every bits of your social life. It didn’t warn you that all your friends would eventually turn their back on you. And it
Developer's Journey A glimpse at my podcast recording workflow, 2019 edition About a year ago, I described in length what my podcasting workflow for #DevJourney looked like. It's time for an update. Let me warn you, I will only describe the delta here, so
Book You should be afraid of the Blackout When was the last time you experienced a real blackout? Years? I can't remember mine. I think there was a dark evening with candles somewhere in my childhood... but it lasted a few
Scrum The Daily scrum isn’t about YOU! Picture a team standing together in front of a wall full of lines and post-its. They’re having what they call a "Daily Scrum". It’s a daily, 15-minutes meeting that happen among
Running How to edit Suunto Countmoves activities? After a pretty deceiving experience with my last Garmin watch, I recently bought a Suunto Spartan Trainer Wrist HR GPS Watch. I must say I've been thrilled with the design, the finish and
Running Share your fitness activities across all services with RunGap Do you track your fitness activities? Which device you use? Which platform do you share on? It's a real jungle out there. I recently stumbled upon RunGap, the App I missed all those years!
Adapt Let's get fuzzy (again) This is going to sound like showing off... and it may be a little bit. It is one of "those posts". A month ago, I bought a new watch. I have had a