I’ve been spending a lot of time answering questions on Stack Overflow lately. From what I read, most of the questions come from unexperienced developers. It’s not easy to understand their questions because they often lack code examples, stack-traces or application logs. Because of that I keep repeating a lot of stuff in the comments […]
Author: phoet
OMG, Apple rejected my App!
After releasing my first RubyMotion app (FC St.Pauli chants), I’m currently working on another one for Freifunk Hamburg. I am using Testflight with a group of 10+ beta testers, to verify that my app is working properly and has no issues whatsoever. The Review Process When I think that an app is close to be […]
So Coded – A Web Conference in Hamburg
On 19th & 20th September 2013 there will be the first So Coded Conference in Hamburg, Germany. I just recently joined the awesome team of organizers and as you can imagine, there is a lot of stuff to do… The conference aims at Ruby, Python, JavaScript, PHP developers and their shared passion for the interwebs. […]
“computering” – a different presentation style
Keynote is nice, but it’s not well suited for technical presentations. Live coding on the other hand is hard and often fails horribly because of some minor typos etc. Some month ago I visited the Python Usergroup Montreal and I saw an awesome live coding session from Rory Geoghegan. He was typing incredibly fast and […]
just don’t do it – the art of being lazy
One thing that I find myself doing a lot is skipping a lot of required programming tasks. From what you can find on the Interwebs only a lazy programmer is a good programmer! This does not mean that you should be doing nothing though… it’s all about getting things done instead of getting stuck in […]