[Nerd-Content] I’ll be at #mhd London and #a2n_camp
03.09.2010 | EveningCome say “Hi” to me at Music Hack Day London this weekend or at the all2gether now Barcamp in Berlin on Monday and Tuesday.
[Nerd-Content] I work at SoundCloud
01.09.2010 | Early Morning
Starting today I work full-time at SoundCloud in the API team. I will make sure that all the great apps that access the API continue to work and thrive. I will answer questions of developers and users on the mailing list and in person. And I will get my head around Ruby and Rails big time.
Sounds like a shitload of fun, fuck yeah!
Among my fellow students I appear to be one of the few who starts a full-time job. I got asked several times how I got hired, so this is the story:
In summer 2008 I read about SoundCloud in De:Bug (original article in german as post or in this pdf page 22). I got an invite to the private beta by Tanith and was impressed by the well-executed concept and the slick design. At that time I was searching for a brief summer internship. I figured that it should either be at Ableton or SoundCloud. My mail to jobs@soundcloud.com was answered so fast by Eric, the CTO of SoundCloud, that I didn’t even sent the application to Ableton …
During the three-weeks internship I worked on the Facebook app and helped with the launch. After the internship I somehow stuck around. At Music Hack Day Berlin we programmed Tracksonamap which we also used for Twestival.fm later.
And I became a SoundCloud evangelist. If you hung out with me within the last two years chances are that I tried to give you SoundCloud stickers or made you promise to get an account. My identification with the Cloud is pretty high.
So in the last two years I was able to watch how the idea of SoundCloud grew into a real business and part of today’s music industry. My enthusiasm for SoundCloud is unbroken. Thus it was only a logical step to get together when I finished my studies. And now I am really looking forward to a great time in the Cloud …
BTW: We are hiring!
[Mobile Photos] Heading South
24.08.2010 | Early Morning
Last trip before starting to work. Hitchhiking to Switzerland.
[Nerd-Content] Twitter Roundup #23
18.08.2010 | Late Afternoon- I survived Iceland
- Volksbegehren zur Offenlegung der Wasserverträge in Berlin unterzeichnen!
- live fast, die old
- $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
[Mobile Photos] I am in Iceland
03.08.2010 | Late Morning
Today I fly to Iceland for a two-week hiking tour. Tent, Sleeping Bag, Instant Noodles. And hopefully amazing views in beautiful landcapes.
[HPI], [Nerd-Content] My Bachelor’s Thesis on Agile Software Development
15.07.2010 | Early Evening
Three weeks ago I handed in my Bachelor’s thesis with the sonorous name “Agile Software Development in Small Projects – Methods and Techniques used in the Sendinel Project“.
This is the abstract:
In this Bachelor’s thesis we reflect on how we used the Agile software development methodologies Scrum and Extreme Programming in the project “Sendinel“. Important aspects are how we came to decisions without a Product Owner, how we managed our process without a Scrum Master and how we organised planning.
Section 2 gives an insight into the project’s background. Section 3 briefly outlines the history of software development processes and introduces Scrum and XP. In Section 4 our development process is explained in detail.
Most value for readers will likely be the possibility to reflect on their own experience with software development. Thus the most interesting part in the thesis might be Section 5: Lessons Learned.
These are my most appreciated references:
- Henrik Kniberg – Scrum and XP from the Trenches (free ebook)
- Kent Beck – Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
- Alistair Cockburn – Agile Software Development
- Jason Fried and DHH – Rework
During writing I put an emphasis on being concise and clear. Especially the book “Revising Prose” helped me to do that. And of course the people who reviewed the thesis (thank you again).
You can download the pdf of the Bachelor’s thesis here.
[Nerd-Content] Twitter Roundup #22
15.07.2010 | Late Morning- “Extreme Programming Explained” by Kent Beck is full of spot-on advise and great thoughts on organising software development. Read it!
- “Programmers enjoy communication. They just don’t like joining in the chitchat about things they consider irrelevant” by Alistair Cockburn (from this good book)
- Yoga is a good thing (yes, i mean stretching your body!)
- If you want to stop a bad habit, the best way is to just stop. And every time you want to fall back, remind yourself exactly why you stopped
- Thinking too much about opportunity cost is a great way to become unhappy
- I question the statement: “Question Everything”
- Alle bleiben noch ein bischen …
