Hi friends! I finished the second book from my PHP reading list, called “Einstieg in PHP 7 und MySQL 5.6”, Rheinwerk Computing. To make it short: Useless, no recommendation. The main problem is that the book does not now if it wants to be an introduction for beginners to learn PHP or a reference manual […]
Author Archives: Thiemo Belmega
On “Head first PHP and MySQL”
Hi friends! As the first step on my endeavour to re-learn PHP I read the book “Head first PHP and MySQL”, O’Reily. I realize that book is quite old (2009), discussing PHP version 5 and is probably missing a lot modern stuff. But it helped my get back into PHP mindset and brought back the […]
On resume critique
Hi friends! As I mentioned before, I signed up on hired.com and therecruiternetwork.com in order to provide my profile to recruiters and potentially receive job offers for the US. From hired.com I received an email saying there is no match for my profile at the moment, I may resubmit my profile again since new jobs […]
On the Java skills required to learn Kotlin
I decided to publish this post as an article on Medium, just to try it out. Go ahead and read it!
On lists and sets
You probably don’t even need to think about what Collection type to use when: If you need to preserve the order or duplicate entries, you take a List. Otherwise if order does not matter and every element should only be contained once, you’ll use a Set.Although nearly every programmer is able to explain that when […]
On moving to the USA
Hi, friends! To clarify one thing first: I’m more than happy at my current job! The Volkswagen Digital:Lab is an amazing place for passionate software developers, who want to build and own great products. Lean and agile like a start up, but with the resources and relevance of europes numbe one car manufacturer – nothing […]
On Kotlin and Java
Hi, friends! I already mentioned that Kotlin is my favorite programming language. Even more, although most of my professional experience is in Java and I liked working in that language, I can bluntly say that I would never again choose to work in Java instead of Kotlin.A lot has been said on this topic by […]
On classes and objects
Hi, friends! In a job interview as a junior software developer, I once was asked to explain the difference between classes and objects. Of course, if you are a developer that question is no challenge at all, but actually there are people leaving university with a computer science related degree who have never understand object […]
On software architects
Hi, friends! In times where I think about career a lot, when my brain is idling while I’m waiting for the subway, folding laundry or something, it starts to play future job interviews in my head. One voice is coming up with interview questions, the other tries to find good answers. (It’s not required to […]
On the 10x programmer
Hi, friends! Have you ever experienced that? You hear a term for the first time that you hadn’t heard in your life before, and shortly after that you hear the same term again in a totally different context? Crazy coincidence or selective perception? In the SE-Radio Episode with Jonathan Nithingale that I already blogged about, […]