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
Featured Developer's Journey podcast Listen to interviews of great professionals on their developer's journey, as well as bits, pieces and random thoughts I have while digging into what it takes to become a great software developer. Get
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
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
Books Review 03.2017-11.2018 (part 3/3) Here's part three of the review of all the books or audio-books that went through my hands and ears between march 2017 and November 2018. The two previous parts are to be found
But what can you eat on keto? My Ketogenic lifestyle has invariably become a conversation topic everywhere I go. After politely passing on appetizers and carefully leaving most of the carbs on my plate, I'm bound to get questions. And
Minimalism Happy smartphone experiment part II - let your iPhone work for you, not against you After my happy smartphone experiment post about reorganizing my phone to limit disturbance, I stumbled upon this article called: How to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You, Not Against You. It sums
Mentoring Step into mentoring with my (first) Email Course Have you ever felt hyper-energized by working together with someone?Have you ever had the feeling you could avoid making many mistakes if you only had someone to talk to?Have you ever
Book Books Review 03.2017-11.2018 (part 2/3) Here's part two of the review of all the books or audiobooks that went through my hands and ears between march 2017 and november 2018. The beginning of the list is to be
Lifestyle Happy Smartphone Experiment Do you own a smartphone? How often does it vibrates in your pocket? More like once per hour? Ten times? One hundred times?I used the opportunity of a weekend away with my
Book Books Review 03.2017-11.2018 (part 1/3) A few days ago, I realized I had missed a few deadlines of (audio)books reviews... so here's all that went through my hands and ears between march 2017 and November 2018. While
Lifestyle The year I pressed the reset button on my body! "Come for the weight loss but stay for the energy" would be my summary of the Ketogenic Lifestyle... but let me roll back a little and give you some context because this is
Developer's Journey Developer's Journey podcast is now on Youtube too! Developer's Journey is now available on Youtube. This is something I've been wanting to do for a very long time, but never made the time to actually execute on. I created a bunch
Mentoring Recording of my talk "You'll never make it alone" @NewCrafts 2018 In June 2018, I was invited in Paris to speak about mentoring at the Ncrafts conference and the talk (in English) was recorded. This is the talk I held for the first time
Podcast My podcast recording workflow explained One month ago, I rebooted the Developer's Journey podcast after a year long hiatus. I then decided to set the pace on a sustainable two-weeks basis and hold it. At the time of
Iphone Let your iPhone read WebPages to you Did you know you can let your iPhone read a text out loud to you? I’ve searched for such a feature for a very long time, and only recently discovered it is
Airtable Solved querying problems between Airtable and Zapier Remember the 3rd problem mentioned in my previous post "No line of code was mishandled while writing this software"? After a few tries, I finally found a proper workaround for the
SeeCFP Never miss a CFP again with SeeCFP The developer week 2018 conference in Nürnberg was the occasion to see many speakers whom I consider “family”. I spent three days there, held a talk about questioning and spent the rest of
Twitter When tweets traverse trees Have you ever read a tweet and found yourself crawling through all the responses to see what people are saying? This can be quite tedious. The problem is that you never know “from
Tweet Create your own tweet-scheduler with Zapier and AirTable Here's another unconventional use case built with Airtable and Zapier: a retweet scheduler. Here are the scenarios it should fulfill: Save every of my own Tweet that matches a given query, in this
Tools No line of code was mishandled while writing this software Drag & drop programming has been an ever fleeing dream like... ever. Every other years, someone comes up with a revolutionary idea that should change everything... and every single time, it fails miserably.
Mentoring Let's invite a bunch of strangers in my living room When I was in high school, stable internet was still a luxury. Network games were on the rise. Online gaming still pretty rare. I will never forget when I first saw another human
Mentor The ultimate guide to get to second base with your mentor/mentee, mentoring 105 Mentoring and dating share a lot in common. Not convinced? Read on. And by the time you finish this article I promise you will never see your mentor the same way again... The