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…
The first day of #devcamp17 was packed with lot of great talks, here comes the second day. Optimizing PhpStorm IDE The most valuable session so far. Christopher of Mayflower showed us how he optimized his PhpStorm IDE. After working almost two years with PyCharm (which is based on the same core like all other Jetbrains…
After owning a couple of cheap merchandise insulated travel mugs, Jens Dittmar convinced me to spend a couple of euros on a “professional” travel mug. (In the end I convinced my boss to buy a bunch of mugs for the whole team as a christmas present so I didn’t have to buy one myself 🙂…
PyCharm amazes me every time. Although it is first and foremost a python IDE you can do full stack web development with it, i. e. you have code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and even TypeScript, CoffeeScript. I wanted to code some node.js stuff and Jetbrains already got a plugin for PyCharm. Before installation: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/2017.1/node-js-and-npm.html…
Tl;dr: I was having a blast! The Developer Camp 2017 took place at Z-Bau in Nuremberg on May 17th and 18th. 130 people gathered around 10:30 on Wednesday to plan the upcoming sessions. The worst thing about barcamps: there are far too many sessions with great topics in parallel. So it is tough to pick…
My friend Timo recommended the book “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks” to me a couple of months ago. During my parental leave I’ve finally found time to read -and more important- code the exercises. The first language is Ruby. Ruby is object-oriented, dynamically and strongly typed. It supports duck typing and is a good fit…
One major change in Python 3 is the implementation of the division operator /. In Python 2 the division yielded a floor rounded integer when dividing two integers but a float when using a float as divider or divisor. Due to Python’s weakly typed nature this behavior could lead to some issues. So PEP-238 changed…
Let’s debunk some myths about iOS development: Myth #1 – You need to code Objective-C False – since 2014 you have an alternative: Swift. This language is open source under the Apache License 2.0 (since Swift 2.2) and even runs on Linux Myth #2 – You need to be enrolled in the Apple Developer Program…