Let's just skip all the frameworks entirely. Learn how to do the work. Learn how to apply inspect and adapt to the work itself. Learn everything (all frameworks + underlying thinking). Build your own process. Nobody excels by following a rigid set of rules by rote.

— Allen Holub (@allenholub) July 4, "2018"

My blog moved from Tumblr to Jekyll running on an EC2-instance.

A series of videos from the YouTube channel “Getting Real” with some interesting insights to “How Basecamp gets work done.”

Tower changed their pricing model 😢

Home office in da sun, what could be a better place to work.

Inspired by Kat Tornwall’s talk about integration tests with Elixir and Phoenix I did some clean up in my integration tests of my current Elixir project. Look how much more readable they are now.

“Visual Studio is one of the single largest pieces of software in the world,” he (Chris Granger, a software developer who worked as a lead at Microsoft on Visual Studio) said. “It’s over 55 million lines of code. And one of the things that I found out in this study is more than 98 percent of it is completely irrelevant. All this work had been put into this thing, but it missed the fundamental problems that people faced.

Meet Me At MongoDB.local Munich

So sad :-(

Pretty well done explanation of DDD

Why Elixir?

Yesterday (2018-03-20) I attended a seminar on regulations in medical software. It gave me heebie-jeebies because it’s obvious that Uncle Bob’s fears seem to become true: law and government will tell us how to do our profession. And gosh, what they are telling us is to go back 10 years. We should not be that passionate programmer and we should swap the two sides of the Agile Manifesto again. The right side really matters much more for them ;-(

Why the f* I have to spread “Why Your Avatar Matters” everytime I join a new environment ;-)

This week I did attend the kickoff meeting of Work'n'Life (like in Rock'n'Roll) at Factory 300 in Linz. The place (Tabakfabrik Linz) is gorgeous and the talks were impressive and very informative.

We, as software developers, will face more and more regulatory demands. Business, government, laws will tell us how to do our work.

Linz kann’s!

ThoughtWork’s new Technology Radar (Vol.17) is out. Always worth reading …

Best article about Erlang Schedulers, I found so far …

It took me some time to figure out how this combination works. Finally, it is rather easy.

Thank you, Chad Fowler @chadfowler for pointing to Glenn Vanderburg’s @glv update of his wonderful talk “Real Software Engineering”. I was fascinated by one of the early versions I saw at Rails Conf 2011 in Baltimore.

More and more people in our industrie figure out what Leonardo Da Vinci already knows hundrets of years ago: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”