Motivation Getting the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certificate is one of my goals from my New Year’s Resolutions and Technology Learning Roadmap 2023 So time to buckle up and learn about cloud concepts first! The Cloud tl;dr; the cloud is someone else’s computer 🙂 In general cloud computing means that you don’t pay for computer hardware…
tl;dr; software engineering is more than just typing code into an editor and let it run on a computer. Software engineering is a bundle of good practices, tools, methodologies and a certain mindset. Model I’ve “developed” this model with the intention to teach software engineering to our apprentices and interns which often did not have…
Motivation WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. It was developed by Google, and is designed to be smaller in size than other image formats, while still maintaining high image quality. One reason WebP is often considered better than JPEG is that it can…
Motivation Inspect and adapt & Iterative and incremental are the most basic agile principles. So, inspection of your process after every iteration can be done by a retrospective. Vegas Rule First some psychological safety: Vega’s Rule: What happens in a retro stays in the retro! Participants only want to share their insights and concerns when…
Motivation The DRY (Don’t repeat yourself) principle does not only apply to code but to mouse clicks as well: When you are repeatedly clicking buttons you might want to figure out some keyboard shortcuts. In Jetbrains IDEs like PyCharm you can use the plugin Key Promotor X to learn these shortcuts. Installation Open the File…
Challenge – Part 1 https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/3 Problem vJrwpWtwJgWrhcsFMMfFFhFp jqHRNqRjqzjGDLGLrsFMfFZSrLrFZsSL PmmdzqPrVvPwwTWBwg wMqvLMZHhHMvwLHjbvcjnnSBnvTQFn ttgJtRGJQctTZtZT CrZsJsPPZsGzwwsLwLmpwMDw The first rucksack contains the items vJrwpWtwJgWrhcsFMMfFFhFp, which means its first compartment contains the items vJrwpWtwJgWr, while the second compartment contains the items hcsFMMfFFhFp. The only item type that appears in both compartments is lowercase p. The second rucksack’s compartments contain jqHRNqRjqzjGDLGL and…
Challenge – Part 1 https://adventofcode.com/2022/day/2 Example For example, suppose you were given the following strategy guide: A Y B X C Z This strategy guide predicts and recommends the following: In the first round, your opponent will choose Rock (A), and you should choose Paper (Y). This ends in a win for you with a…
After solving Part 1 of Day 1 I could unlock the second challenge. It’s a slight variation of the first. Find the top three Elves carrying the most Calories. How many Calories are those Elves carrying in total? calories = “””1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 10000″”” The test data stays the…
Motivation Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. As I already tried some of the puzzles last year I wanted to see how far I could get this year. Registration To be…
Motivation Agile retrospective are a great tool to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your team. They also may improve the overall satisfaction of your co-workers when done properly. So here are some rules Ten rules for agile retros: #10 – A Retro always takes 90 minutes #9 – Time Boxing 5 min – Set…