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The Workshop Method How it works In stead of starting the journey of your students by familiarizing them with the syntax and quirks of the programming language of your choice, teach them to solve problems in the way you would solve them in code. With very small, discrete, steps that are executed sequentially to get to a result. In order to do this, we introduce the metaphor of the Medieval Workshop.

How a simple automatic deployment plugin turned into a wild bantha chase Storytelling This week, I started working as a freelance software consultant. Since I am very new to the team, I was actively looking to contribute something of value to the team as soon as I could. Today I was asked to do a simple task: updating some library and deploying all dependent applications on the development servers.

The challenge of personal productivity One of the challenges I have been trying to overcome over the last few years has been “getting things done”. The people that know me personally can testify to the fact that I tend to be scatter-brained, and can get distracted by inputs. The desire to overcome this is one of the reasons I started working on TRAMBU. Since then, I have learned a lot about (personal) productivity and organizational methods and systems to get work done timely and efficiently.

It’s been a while since I have written a post about my hobby project. I am currently working on a big restructuring of the code. The reason why I am doing this is quite straightforward: I want the application to be easier to test, and clearly structured. Apart from this I would like the quality of the code to be good, and to have an idea about the vulnerabilities of my dependencies.