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Monthly Archives: February 2019

On my reading list

I go to the library every feew weeks and bring home a pile of educational/scientific books I want to read. Here is the list of titles I picked this time: PHP “PHP for absolute beginners“, Thomas Hanson and Jason Lengsdorf, 2014.“Einstieg in PHP 7 und MySQL 5.6” (in English: Introduction to PHP 7 and MySQL […]

Posted byThiemo BelmegaFebruary 9, 2019February 9, 2019Posted inOn my reading list1 Comment on On my reading list

On engineering management

When I resigned from my developer job at a company once, some middle managers suggested a 2-on-1 meeting with me to see if they could convince me to stay. They asked me for my mid term career plans, and I replied: “I want to be a world class software developer, working five times faster than […]

Posted byThiemo BelmegaFebruary 8, 2019February 10, 2019Posted inOn career, On engineering managementLeave a comment on On engineering management

On a name for my blog

Hi, friends!After some brainstorming, I narrowed down the possible names for my blog to three options: The third best option was TotalSurpriseException, because that’s the name of my YouTube channel since two years or so, where I’m publishing coding tutorial videos. The name was intended to be somewhat technology related and humorous, but it does […]

Posted byThiemo BelmegaFebruary 5, 2019February 9, 2019Posted inOn anythingLeave a comment on On a name for my blog

On increasing your foodprint

Hi, friends! There is one more reason to start blogging, in addition to documenting your thoughts for yourself, producing helpful content for your fellow readers and enjoying the attention: No matter if you just starting your career or you’re already senior level – sooner or later you want to apply for the next job. Of […]

Posted byThiemo BelmegaFebruary 4, 2019February 4, 2019Posted inOn careerLeave a comment on On increasing your foodprint

On blogging

Hi, friends! My next pet project will be to learn PHP. I’m planning to create some real-world web application, similar to what I routinely build with my favorite technology stack (Spring Boot, Kotlin, Angular), and explore on the fly how to do that in today’s PHP ecosystem. That includes a bunch of initial reading, probably […]

Posted byThiemo BelmegaFebruary 4, 2019February 4, 2019Posted inOn anythingLeave a comment on On blogging

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