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Do you go to meetups?

Last Update: 11.07.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

If not, you should consider it.

Do you believe in TDD?

Last Update: 09.07.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

TDD here, TDD there.

Single repo vs few vs many

Last Update: 06.07.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

We scratched topic yesterday, but I thought we could talk about that a bit further.

Readers question about cutting services

Last Update: 05.07.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

Reader Onno wrote in with some questions I’d like to discuss on the list (with permission of course).

Do we need to have a vision?

Last Update: 04.07.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

I was hosting a meetup yesterday and an interesting discussion came up about the lack of vision at German companies. In this particular case, we were mainly talking about hosting companies. They almost all missed the move to the cloud. Sure, they can offer a tiny bit of it and call it cloud hosting. But essentially, they lack know-how and humans. Now they are still standing on the rail platform and see the cloud train on the horizon. Wondering, if they should have taken the train.

Do you market yourself?

Last Update: 03.07.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

I bet you do not. As most devs don’t do it. I didn’t do it too. At least not intentionally and outside of projects.

What's your worst client experience?

Last Update: 02.07.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

I am preparing for a talk about mistakes clients do during software dev projects and I’d love to spice it up with some of your experiences.

What we can learn from team rocket

Last Update: 29.06.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

I’ve been watching Jessie, James, and Meowth failing for almost two years now with my daughter. It’s fun and both of us enjoy the show. I never really watched em when they first aired. Surprised me a bit. What surprised me, even more, is that they promote some great virtues along the show like never give up, teamwork, give your best and don’t be an arrogant asshole.

The framework rat race...

Last Update: 26.06.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

one of the favorite pet peeves of us developers. Learning is fun, so learning new frameworks is fun too. Or subjectively mandatory for getting a new job or better projects. Moving from one framework to another makes you feel better. You learn, you improve and eventually, you get a higher paycheck or a better rate if you freelance. It always seems that people using framework X or language Y get better paid.