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My personal wrap-up of the NDC 2012

My personal wrap-up of the NDC 2012

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I was at the Norwegian Developer Conference (NDC) 2012 in Oslo. It is one of the best conferences I know in Europe. One reason is, that a lot of alpha-geeks are speaking there. There were during three days 8 parallels tracks, so you have to manage your program. My program looked like this: Wednesday, 6.6.2012 Keynote, Aral Balkan Decisions, Decisions, Dan North Professional Software Development, Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) Agile Estimating, Mike Cohn Modeling Distributed Systems with NServiceBus Studio,…

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Services and customer orientation

Services and customer orientation

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Usually I don’t blog here about personal topics. But as some friends know, I was some days ago in the united states – to be more precise, at the west coast. I visited the cities San Francisco, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. I was a great trip and I enjoyed the cities, the landscape (Grand Canyon) and a lot more. To be honest, one of the most things which impressed me on the trip was the service and customer orientation…

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Certified Professional Scrum Master I

Certified Professional Scrum Master I

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I did it again. First I did the scrum master course with the great teacher Ralph Jocham (@rjocham, effective agile). Then I passed the assessment after exercise the open assessment several times. I read also the Scrum guide twice. After that I took the assessment and passed it. So now I’m a certified Professional Scrum Master I by Scrum.org. Collaboration One thing is really important for modern software development is collaboration. Without you have a bunch of single fighters and…

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Master of Advanced Studies in Information Technology

Master of Advanced Studies in Information Technology

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During the last three years I was a part-time student again because I did at the university of applied science in Berne a post-grade study. Last week I received my certificate and the new title on the CV is now “Master of Advanced Studies in Information Technology”. I chose the following four semesters in my study: Java Enterprise Development Business economics for professionals and managers Software Architecture Business Engineering After those four semesters I had to do during a semester…

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Visualize changes in your repository

Visualize changes in your repository

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As you perhaps know, there exists a very interesting project on Google code, with which you can visualize the activities on your repository: Gource. Getting started It supports Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and SVN. There is also a way to visualize the changes in a repository of a Microsoft Team Foundation server: GourceTFS. Luckily, in one of my current projects I use Subversion as repository. So it is very easy to visualize the log. Just go in the command line to…

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