Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 19-20 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.
In today’s news is Phillipp Krenn, developer advocate @Elastic, who spreads the love and knowledge of full-text search, analytics, and real-time data. During his sessions, the attendees will cover the basics of Ansible by setting up a local environment in Vagrant and explore how Elasticsearch stores and interacts with JSON documents.
#1. SHARE TOP 5 THINGS YOU DID THAT HELPED YOU GROW & BECOME THE PROFESSIONAL YOU ARE TODAY
- Never stop learning: Keep up to date & don’t ignore either tried and tested solutions of the past
- Participate at local events to learn and get to know other people in your field — meetup.com is a great starting point
- Build stuff: Find interesting problems to apply and extend your skills
- Attend at least 1 conference per year to broaden your horizon
- Your dream job or project is just one interview away; there are way more opportunities than you would think at first, just give it a try
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your sessions @ I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016?
In my Ansible & AWS workshop we will learn how to automate your infrastructure, so you have a reproducible and documented system.
In the Elasticsearch talk we will try to overcome the object-relational impedence mismatch and make developmemt more productive and fun.
#3. What else would you like to share with participants?
The best place to learn more about my experience or ask any question is definitely Twitter – @xeraa
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Registration for I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2015 is now open. Just the first 30 participants will benefit from the Supporter Ticket. Here are some highlights from the Schedule we have prepared for your high tech delightment: |
- Architecture – Microservices & Web components are the same with Tim Perry
- DevOps – How Docker tricked me in DEvOps with Sebastian Korfmann
- Developer’s Life – Power up: Learn how to recharge your energy bar with Andrew Hall
- Executable Specifications – Living Documentation Jumpstart with Cyrille Martraire
- Hardcore Programming – Clojure, Clojure Script why they’re awesome with Stefan Kanev
- Web – Object-Oriented Views with Aki Salmi
- Technical Leadership – How to boost development team’s speed with Patroklos Papapetrou
- Kata Lounge – Receive some requirements, respect the timebox, and then somebody will review the code with you and give you ideas for improvement
- Product Development – You will produce software live
Are you ready to write code, analyze architectures and technical strategy and immerse yourself into this awesome gathering of software passionates?
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Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 11-12 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.
Thomas Coopman is an independent software engineer and consultant focused on the full stack: frontend, backend and mostly people, practices and processes. At #itakeunconf, in his hands-on session, the participants will be implementing projections based on an event stream we provide.
#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow and become the professional you are today
I draw most of my inspiration from visiting and organizing events in the communities. Additionally, the Software Craftsmanship Slack Team is a great place to start discussing with craftspeople all over the world.
1) Experimenting with different career choices until it felt good
2) Exchanging experiences with fellow professionals by attending meetups, usergroups and conferences
3) Fighting the urge to assume I’m always right
4) Limiting the subjects I’m willing to learn and invest time in
5) Investing in my communication techniques. I’m continuously learning to speak non-techie. I’m practicing speaking in front of an audience.
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?
The ability to extract useful knowledge from a store of historical events.
#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you
1) The Software Craftsmanship and Testing community are awesome. Reach out to them.
2) Listen to any podcast or audiobook during your commute. It’s far better for your personal growth than listening to the (mostly bad) news on the radio. I particularly like these podcasts: Star Talk Radio and Hardcore History.
3) Pick up a musical instrument and learn to play it adequately. I tend to relax with a guitar in my hands or a piano at my fingertips.
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Node.JS OSS
#1. Share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today
- I got the chance to work with technology from a very early age (think ZX Spectrum, Intel 8088) and also with assembly language. This taught me to appreciate constraints and never ignore optimization or be lazy.
- Discovering OSS via the Allegro game library lead me to a wealth of code to analyze and learn from.
- Getting a job in the IT department at the university while being a student there leading to four years of experimenting with whatever I wanted to.
- Teaching at the same university.
- Getting involved in the Drupal community, taking part in the creation of Romanian branch, organizing various camps and teaching Drupal.
#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016?
#3. What else would you like to share with participants
- I am a very bad theremin player. The theremin was the first electronic instrument ever invented and you play it by not touching it. Check it out, it’s pretty cool.
- I am passionate about synthesizers, old hardware and horror movies.
- I am an amateur musician using Gameboys, Commodore 64 sound chips and other retro things. I once played music in the Gara de Nord railway, at the info panel.
- I like to ride statues (usually of pigs) while pretending to be Bastian from the Neverending Story.
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