Leaving a Legacy

As presented @ J-Fall

Slides Slides available as PDF Content Onboarding A great blog to learn more about “good first issue” is: https://opensauced.pizza/blog/good-first-issues-dont-exist. On Documentation We mentioned the value of putting documentation in your repository. An example project that does this with maven and asciidoc can be found here: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-examples. On Testing During the talk, we mentioned multiple testing tools. These are all described in another talk: Modern Testing Patterns. You can check out that talk here: [Read More]

Leaving a Legacy

As presented @ Voxxed Brussels

Slides Slides available as PDF Content Onboarding A great blog to learn more about “good first issue” is: https://opensauced.pizza/blog/good-first-issues-dont-exist. On Documentation We mentioned the value of putting documentation in your repository. An example project that does this with maven and asciidoc can be found here: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-examples. On Testing During the talk, we mentioned multiple testing tools. These are all described in another talk: Modern Testing Patterns. You can check out that talk here: [Read More]

Leaving a Legacy

As presented @ JavaLand

Slides Slides available as PDF Content Onboarding A great blog to learn more about “good first issue” is: https://opensauced.pizza/blog/good-first-issues-dont-exist. On Documentation We mentioned the value of putting documentation in your repository. An example project that does this with maven and asciidoc can be found here: https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-maven-examples. On Testing During the talk, we mentioned multiple testing tools. These are all described in another talk: Modern Testing Patterns. You can check out that talk here: [Read More]

'Just Google It' is not enough

The negative impact of 3 simple words

When I had just transitioned into a senior role a couple of years ago, a junior developer in my team asked me a technical question. I was busy tackling a pretty important issue which required my full attention so I didn’t give him the time he deserved. Basically what I answered him was: “Just Google It…” Fast forward a couple of months. I am scrolling through Twitter and see an interesting discussion. [Read More]