I’m joining The Things Network In June I left Appcelerator, which allowed July to be the first month in a long time during which I enjoyed vacation without keeping an eye on Slack, Twitter, Stack Overflow and my mailbox. My next thing is about things Before I drove my family down to the Atlantic coast of France, I had some drinks […]
Intercom on Customer Support I’m a huge fan of Intercom’s books. They are relatively short, but contain great content and you will learn something from each one of them. And that for just a social share or $5 donation towards Code2040. This week I read the book on Customer Support. Here’s what I got out of it. Users on […]
What am I really all about? After I left Appcelerator, I did what we all do in between jobs. No, I don’t mean binge-watching – although I did subscribe to HBO and enjoyed some great movies since. I’m talking about updating tons of social profiles and of course LinkedIn. The easy part Replacing the profile photos where I was wearing an […]
I’m leaving Appcelerator Already an active member of the Titanium community, about 1.5 year ago I joined Appcelerator to become Developer Evangelist/Advocate. I’ve had a great time serving many thousands of developers, but all good things come to an end. I’m leaving Appcelerator. How it started I built my first Titanium app in 2012 and by the end […]
Back from an amazing week in Rwanda Physically I landed on AMS on Sunday morning, but it will take some time before I’m fully here again. The past week I’ve spent in Rwanda was amazing and filled with extremes. Cycling through the land of the 1000 hills The landscape was beautiful. In 386 kilometers (240 miles) we’ve climbed 5980 meters (3.7 miles) […]
TNW Europe 2016 Hack Battle Winner On a last minute invite, I joined The Next Web’s Hack Battle last week in Amsterdam. I thought it would be a good excuse to play with IoT and The Things Network in particular. It was a lot of fun and I saw some amazing and creative hacks. Three partner prizes and overall winner As […]
Developer Experience: Beyond Products & Solutions Developer Relations is still a relatively young profession, trying to find its rightful place between marketing, support and engineering. I enjoy reflecting on this journey with others at events like DevRelCon and hope to organise a new DevRelAms soon. Earlier I wrote about comparing Developer Evangelism with its Religious counterpart and the Value of FOSS. […]
I’m building a Titanium Geo Tracking App for Compassion As you might have heard, I have big plans this summer. I hope to cycle 400km through Rwanda (Africa) and raise €10,000 in funds for Compassion, a children aid charity. Obviously this means I’m on my bike a lot these days and as a nerd of course I’ve been tracking all my rides using Ride […]
How to wait for a JavaScript variable to be defined About a year ago we started to use Intercom at Appcelerator to improve our support and communication with our users. You might have seen the red “bubble” on the bottom right of our properties: The variable we need .. I recently needed to detect if the Intercom Messenger was enabled for a user on the […]
The value of [Free] [Open Source] Software Communities There’s this saying that: It’s harder to win new customers than to keep existing ones. Some seem to think this means you have to dedicate huge amounts of resources to acquisition marketing, sales and developer evangelism. Of course I’m all for allocating resources to the last one in particular, but of course the principle is […]
