Git Heroes In an effort to do a better job at thanking the Appcelerator community for their contributions to our Open Source projects like Titanium and Alloy I have created a small NodeJS package called git-heroes. Existing solutions Of course I did have a look at existing solutions like contributors and git-contributors and even submitted a PR […]
Developer Forum at European multinational A European multinational invited me to speak at an internal developer forum last week. As you’d probably see at other companies of this size, different divisions use different tools to achieve the same goals. A cross-division forum like this is a great way to share knowledge and learn from current and potential partners. Centralising might […]
Mobilization 2015, Poland I really looked forward to Mobilization in Łódź, Poland. It’s one of the biggest mobile conferences in the area and they have this weird army-theme with people dressed in army clothes and even wearing fake (I hope) grenades. We’d have a speakers city trip on Sunday, drink some local wodka; what can you expect more […]
New Meetup Group: DevRelAms One of the things I took away from DevRelCon in London was the idea to start a local meetup group Developer Relations Professionals in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Already in London I discussed the idea with MessageBird Platform Evangelist Sam Wierema and within a few days I created the group and Sam found a venue with […]
What I take away from #DevRelCon 2015 I’m on my way back to Holland as I look back on two inspiring days in London. No talks by me this time – I just sat back and learned about Developer Relations from some of the best! Technical Evangelist Meetup On Tuesday night I attended the Technical Evangelist Meetup where Greenwich PhD student Dawn […]
VW Dieselgate, Unit Tests.. and the solution Like many, I was amazed by Volkswagen’s Dieselgate but at the same time wasn’t surprised either. When governments set strict requirements to be able to sell your product or even subsidise it when it meets them – what do you expect?! Unit Testing The way VW cheated on the emission tests made me think of the limitations of the […]
The New Kingmakers, Stephen O’Grady I just finished The New Kingmakers or How developers Conquered the World by Stephen O’Grady (2013). A great read about the ever growing importance of developers in pretty much any industry. You might also have heard that developers are the new rockstars. O’Grady does a fantastic job at explaining how that happened and what it […]
Speaking at Mobilization in Poland I’ll be speaking at Mobilization5 for mobile conference in Łódź, Poland on October 17th. Mobilization is one of the bigger mobile conferences in eastern Europe and has a slightly unusual army theme. My talk will be an introduction to using JavaScript to develop both native mobile apps and their middleware/backends using Appcelerator Titanium and Arrow. For more information: 2015.mobilization.pl
Speaking at Hamburg Titanium Yesterday I hopped on a train to Hamburg (Germany) to speak at our meetup group there. I met with about 20 people in co-working and event space betahaus 2.0. Thanks everyone! Ti.MarkerManager Rainer Schleevoigt kicked off with a talk about his library ti.markermanager to display huge amounts annotations on a ti.map View. The demo (who […]
A month in California for work & pleasure I’ve just returned from a 3 week roadtrip through central and south California with my wife Hannah and our two boys. Before we hit the road we spent a week in a truly Lovely Home on Holly Park in San Francisco. It was good to finally be able to work a few days from Appcelerator […]
