Hi friends! In a recent talk Robert C. “Uncle Bob” Martin mentioned as a side note, that in the field of software engineering college education is limping 10 years behind the industry. Having studied at three different German and one Irish university, this observation matches exactly my experience. To be clear, I acknowledge that there […]
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On self-filtering spam emails
Hi friends! Since last week, I’m noticing a few more spam emails than usual in my inboxes… around three every day. The outstanding feature on this emails is that they use custom fonts in the subject line, so it’s easier and quicker for me to recognize them as spam and delete them without even reading […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]