After I’ve introduced You to Yarn I will show You more client side tools in this post. Grunt is a task runner which comes in handy for a lot of setup and configuring work e.g. concatenating and minimizing JavaScript or CSS files To get started You can add grunt via yarn to your project yarn…
Fiddling around with the wire webapp which is available on GitHub I came across yarn. Yarn is a package manager like npm which accesses the same repositories. The design goals are reproducibility of builds, speed and security. Installation npm install -g yarn or on macOS
Motivation Good writing is key for a software developer as I stated in Writing as a complementary skill for your SW engineering career So when you are writing a lot of texts in the browser e.g. in a wiki or an issue tracker you definitely want a spellchecker enabled. For some reasons Firefox distinguishes between…
Many software developers use a multi monitor setup with two or three screens at 24 inches or more. Some folks like video editors even use giant curved screens with more than 34 inches. Thus it sometimes can become painful to find your mouse pointer on such big screen estate. On Windows 10 you can change…
Update of the Update: The hot air balloon drive was canceled once again 🙁 I’m going to visit the Management 3.0 foundation workshop I can make another update to my 2017 Roadmap: [x] I did the test drive with the Tesla P100D! [x] Spontaneously I’ve visited devcamp17 [x] I did a couple of katas in…
One item crossed off my bucket list – I drove a Tesla Model S P100D!
I’ve always loved to read as a child but what I read depended mostly on the books I got as birthday presents. As an adult I occasionally bought some books at book stores at train stations. But I never had a strategy how to build a library. Why do I need a library? Knowledge is…
If you learn a music instrument you have to learn riffs, licks and songs. No teacher will ever say “Here are all the chords and scales. Go into the world and make people happy” Does not work. But in software development sometimes it seems to look like that universities show you algorithms and data structure…
Bill Gates once said: “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” Sometimes being such a lazy person I’ve discovered a couple of years ago a neat little browser plug in which let’s you automate your browser. It’s called iMacros and…
Motivation Every Junior Developer needs some pet projects to try out some techniques he or she is not familiar with already. Because I’ve always had a hard time with regular expressions (I know that they are useful, but I use them so rarely that I cannot get a hold of all the syntax) I’ve started…