Apart from learning about clean code the developers conference was an excellent opportunity to act out our play instinct. As a result during the conference days something cute and colorful was born, something with wings (or paddles?) that moves, reacts to its environment and now even learned to play melodies when bumping the wall. >> more…
Being split up into two offices bears some difficulties, espescially because it’s difficult to communicate mainly via email. We try to tackle this problem by having video conferecnes each week, a mailing list to discuss programming topics, interoffice pairing etc., but sometimes it’s good to meet each other in real life. That’s why we have a DevCon (developer’s conference) each year where we talk about collaboration, code and stuff. This time we wanted to focus on clean code and get a common understanding of what we like and don’t like. Because it’s hard to achieve this by merely talking, Christoph and me came up with a coding exercise to be solved in pairs – one guy from St. Petersburg, one from Munich. >> more…