Playing the role of the programmer whose manager doesn’t pay for trainings to get advice from Erik. This video is part of a longer conversation. Erik Talboom is a facilitator, coach, trainer, software crafter and infinite gamer. He is co-organizing the SoCraTes Belgium community and currently works as a Software Configuration Manager for a medical […]
The story of one of the weirdest bug encountered by Gerard Meszaros. This video is an excerpt from a longer conversation. Find the first part here: Gerard Meszaros is an agile software development consultant, trainer, author and semi-frequent conference speaker. He is well known for his book “XUnit Test Patterns” https://www.amazon.com/xUnit-Test-Patterns-Refactoring-Code/dp/0131495054, for his contribution to
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What would make a good programming language for learning? Find out more about Heidi, a language inspired by Felienne’s research. This is an excerpt from a longer conversation with Felienne Hermans. You can find the whole conversation here: https://youtu.be/CPVN2QO6TK0 Felienne Hermans is an associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden
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What is the hardest part of science? And how does it apply to software development? This is an excerpt from a longer conversation with Felienne Hermans. You can find the whole conversation here: https://youtu.be/CPVN2QO6TK0 Felienne Hermans is an associate professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science at Leiden University, where she heads the
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This is an excerpt from a longer conversation between Alex Bolboaca and Armagan Amcalar. You can find the full video here: https://youtu.be/atRkRQbLI5Q Armagan Amcalar is a leader, entrepreneur, programmer, public speaker, musician and software architect. You can learn more about him on his website https://arm.ag/, on twitter https://twitter.com/dashersw and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/armaganamcalar/.
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How do experts form? We discuss about this and more with Prof. Dr. Roger Kneebone, author of “Expert: Understanding the Path to Mastery” and a long time curious investigator of expertise in different domains. We share stories from our different domains and compare experiences, in a conversation that passed so quickly that we want to
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Why did the LEGO group start using serverless? This is an excerpt from a longer conversation with Sheen Brissals, watch it here: https://youtu.be/QmHCOb97feA Sheen Brisals is an AWS Serverless Hero. In his current role as a Senior Engineering Manager at The LEGO Group, Sheen’s focus is on architecting and building Serverless solutions. Sheen has held
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Scrum is not the only way to organize agile organizations. To be effective, you need to combine Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP) in various ways. We talk in this focused chat about these the flavours, their similarities, their differences, and how to combine them based on your context. Adi Bolboaca is a VP, trainer
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The topic of this Focused Chat is “You are NOT your code, or how to accept feedback”, where we discuss why programmers have a hard time getting emotionally detached from their code, how to gradually get over this challenge, why feedback is useful, and how it’s best if you seek feedback instead of dreading it.
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Nicolas Carlo https://twitter.com/nicoespeon is a programmer who puts a lot of energy into communities, community building, learning and teaching, and he enjoys tackling legacy code. Some of Nicolas’ projects are Understanding Legacy Code https://understandlegacycode.com and Legacy Code First Aid Kit https://understandlegacycode.com/first-aid-kit Adrian Bolboaca is the VP of Innovation in Education and Technology at Mozaic Works,
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