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
Mentor The leading role, the mentee, mentoring 104 Close your eyes. Think about the word "mentee". Do you see Daniel - from The Karate Kid sanding wooden floor and hoping that this weird activity somehow has something to do
Mentor The benefits for the mentor, mentoring 103 In the first post of this series I explained why having a companion on your life journey is necessary. And in the second post of this series we demystified the mentor, saw what
Mentor Demystifying the mentor, mentoring 102 Close your eyes. Think about the word "mentor". Do you see an old wise man with a mighty grey beard? Thank you Hollywood, you've placed Gandalf as a mentoring archetype. No
Mentoring Why would I ever want a mentor? Mentoring 101 How often did you experience the first result on Google to be a perfect match? How often did you read the book you needed by accident? How often have you heard yourself say
Learning CL...WAT? My new role as a CLO Last year our CEO trusted me with a brand new “CLO” role. Since I updated my profile, it has been a never-ending source of questions. This post is as much an attempt to
Mentor A story about storytelling a mentoring story Six months ago, I got the confirmation that I would talk at the Javaland 2018 conference. I welcomed this news with enormous joy. Javaland is a conference I had never been to and
DevJourney Make it right Imagine stepping into a foreign kitchen to prepare an enchanting diner. Compared to cooking at home, how fast are you likely to be? You may be a great cook but not knowing where
Craftsmanship Make it work Once upon a time, there was a black chalk board in a dark room. The board carried remainders of countless creations. Diagrams that could pass as hieroglyphs for the non-educated eye. Or well
Talk If I had more time, I would have written a shorter talk "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter" wrote Blaise Pascal in 1657. This sentence emphasizes how hard it is to be
DevJourney DevJourney in the German Magazine 'Java Aktuell' My last Dev Journey article has just been published in the January 2018 edition of the German Magazine "Java Aktuell" (in German). This is the magazine of the DOAG (the Deutsch
Coaching Mobbing is not so bad The performance of one of the teams I work with as a Scrum Master has been stalling for while. Things are taking longer than expected. Problems are being bypassed instead of solved. "
Agile The Nokia Test A few weeks ago, I discovered the "Nokia Test", two simple sets of questions to respectively check if you are doing iterative development and if you are doing Scrum. Alone the
DevJourney DevJourney Interview #24 Daniel Marbach In this episode I talk with Daniel Marbach, software engineer, architect, evangelist, family man, father, public speaker and so much more. We touched on how his first failure shaped his career and made
DevJourney DevJourney Interview #23 Laura Savino The guest this week is Laura Savino. Laura is a freelance iOS developer whose non-tech passions include foreign languages and teaching. We started talking about languages, how we learn them, and how kids
Google When bashing Inbox by Gmail was still a thing "Give it another chance". That's what a colleague told me. Inbox by Gmail wasn't great when it came out in 2015. And it introduced a whole new paradigm, which made it
Mentoring Mentoring: how you can take your colleagues to the next level This article was first published, in German, in the t3n online magazine (June 1st 2017) and translated by yours truly. I tried to remain true to the original German version, even if it