A few days ago, I got an email about problems with comments on this blog. When you tried to post a comment you only got this error message:
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Today's post is not about software development. I like interesting pictures and the Spotlight images used in the lock screen of Windows 10 are often so interesting that I like to keep them for longer. Those images are stored on your computer, you only need to find them - but where?
My personal highlight of 2018 was definitely my talk What Doctors Can Teach Us on Continuous Learning at NDC Oslo. You can find the recording of it on YouTube:
After a fresh install of Windows 10 I had to get .Net 3.5. That’s normally a simple step of activating a Windows feature. However, this time it did not work. Instead of .Net 3.5 I only got the error 0x800F081F.
With every newly installed Windows Server, I run into the same problem:
The plugins for WordPress are uncountable. But not all are up-to-date and work with the newest version. The result are countless hours spent finding the right plugin for the job. Today I want to share 5 plugins that are a great help for me running this blog.
Multiple tabs in a web browser are great. If they persist a restart of your browser, you quickly use them as a read-later list. In such a case you don’t want to close the wrong tab. Unfortunately, this happens more often than you want. But there is a simple way to reopen the last closed Tab that works in most browsers.
This summer I could finally catch up with many podcasts I wanted to listen to. To hear different perspectives is a great opportunity to rethink what you are doing and discover new possibilities. One of the new discoveries I made is the CodeNewbie podcast by Saron Yitbarek.
Working in the flow feels great. You are fully immersed and can spend hours focused on one single goal. However, it’s not that easy to get into this state of mind. Some use a form of meditation techniques, other listen to music. The later one sometimes worked for me, but most of the time it’s more a distraction. The songs that are fun to listen to often don’t improve the ability to solve complex problems.
As a little distraction from writing I was procrastinating on Hacker News and Reddit. The blog post “Why are we interviewing Developers by asking Architect questions?” caught my attention and got me thinking about the term "maintenance developer". Those mythical species of developers who are so insisting that their work is so fundamentally different from all other things that developers do. As Ted Winslow points out they should not need to know anything about architecture. Others think they don’t influence the code and therefore don’t need training. Visiting a conference is a waste of time, then all they do is maintenance…