2018 isn’t over yet, but especially the last six months have been an intense time for me so far. With presentations at some major conferences, traveling around to talk at several meetups and organizing some workshops as well as coding some software analyses and helping out some developers, I have to say…
Busy November 2017
You probably noticed that I haven’t published some new content on this blog in November. This has some pleasant reasons that I like to share with you in this post: Talks, Talks, Talks, Talks I did four talks at
What am I doing here?
Maybe you’re reading my blog for some time. Maybe you just came over for the
first visit to my blog. You might be browsing through some content. And there it
comes, the inevitable question: “What is this guy doing here?”…
Talked! “Philosophy screws it all up!” at Java Forum Stuttgart 2017
I gave a talk at Java Forum Stuttgart 2017 on July 5th 2017. I was a little bit nervous because it was my first Pecha Kucha talk and a very tricky topic at the same time: Epistemology and its influence
My Experiences with jQAssistant so far
jQAssistant (http://www.jqassistant.org) is a great tool for scanning and validating software structures (like Maven projects, Java bytecode or Git repositories). It also supports documenting your architectural rules and design conventions in a central place. I think jQAssistant is one of the most awesome tools out there …
Warum Quellcode kommentieren?
Eines der agilen Prinzipien lautet: “Funktionierende Software mehr als umfassende Dokumentation”. Viele Entwickler sind daher der Meinung, dass sie überhaupt nichts mehr dokumentieren bzw. im Code kommentieren müssen. Wer im Manifest jedoch weiterliest, erfährt “obwohl wir die Werte auf der rechten Seite wichtig finden, schätzen wir die Werte auf der linken Seite höher ein”. Dokumentation spielt auch in der agilen Softwareentwicklung sehr wohl eine wichtige Rolle…
Online conference talks
Just to get you started, a few links to videos of great talks at fabulous conferences / companies: InfoQ: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ DEVVOX: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCBVCTuk6uJrN3iFV_3vurg/videos GOTO: https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/videos Google Tech talks: https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks/videos A MUST WATCH: “Clean Code Talks”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F72VULWFvc&list=PL693EFD059797C21E Also very inspirational… …for Java