As a child and teenager I read a lot, mostly fictional books. I often went to the library and got lots of books as a birthday or Christmas present. Astrid Lindgren Tonke Dragt Wolfgang Hohlbein On of my favorite authors at that time was Ken Follet. I read through the 1000+ pages of the Pillars…
About the Author Chad Fowler is best know for being CTO of 6Wunderkinder after its exit to Microsoft. Before he was Senior Vice President of Technology at LivingSocial. The Book Fun fact: the first edition of this book was titled “My Job Went to India: 52 Ways To Save Your Job” Fowler found this title…
After I had updated my WordPress installation I accidentally found the WordPress app for iOS. And it is great for two things: uploading your smartphone photos into an article and writing sketches on the go. If you get along well with the smartphone keyboard you can even write complete articles with this app Multiples Sites…
From time to time You need to take photos of documents, whiteboards or business cards. Microsoft Office Lens speeds up the process by enhancing the image in an automatic fashion. Recommended by my colleague Jens Dittmar this little helper improved my workday a lot. Let’s see it in action first: Documents Let’s say You have…
I think I first came across the Peter Principle in the context of The Dilbert Principle. Where Scott Adams states in a satirical fashion that “leadership is nature’s way of removing morons from the productive flow”, Peter and Hull just say that everybody in a big enough hierarchy always gets promoted to a position where…
Christmas is over, so we get rid of the Christmas Tree. Today I want to show You another Code Kata: Roman Numerals. The task seems to be quite easy. Write a program which converts a decimal number into a string which contains the equivalent as a roman literal. E.g. convert 1984 into MCMLXXXIV. The requirements…
I made a list of technologies I’m going to learn – or at least get an overview of – in 2017. I’ve already started to look into Rust and also did some web tech tutorials on codecademy. Because I read “4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Learn to Code from Codecademy” I will not leave it…
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Inspired by a blog post of Dave Thomas I started to implement my technology learning roadmap by writing little code katas. To kill two birds with one stone I first solve a programming puzzle with my lingua franca Python. That helped me to concentrate on solving the algorithmic part of the puzzle because I don’t…
I was reading “The Passionate Programmer” by Chad Fowler and came across an action point which literally read “go to a software conference”. But spending hundreds of euros on a conference like OOP in Munich with travel costs and expenses for hotel and meals wasn’t quite the way to go as a father of two…