Recently, I attended the Kotlin programming language conference, aptly named KotlinConf, to learn about the latest developments in the language. Naturally, my first idea for this blog was to list the top takeaways of the talks I attended. However, I thought it could be more useful for those who aren’t familiar with Kotlin yet to […]
Top take-aways from TEQNation
Last week, on May 15, I had the pleasure of attending the TEQNation conference. While I had been to this NLJUG event before, it felt like my first time again. Not only because of the amazing new location—the industrial chic De Fabrique—also because it’s my first time attending as a budding programmer. Although, given the […]
Elastic{ON} 2016
Last week a colleague and I attended Elastic{ON} in San Francisco. The venue at Pier 48 gave a nice view on (among others) the Oakland Bay Bridge. Almost 2000 Elastic fanatics converged to listen to and talk about everything in the Elastic Stack. I have been to a lot of sessions. I think the two […]
WWDC 2015: Auto Layout improvements
Last weekend I arrived home safe and sound, already missing San Francisco. I had a wonderful time there and I have lots to talk about, but there was one topic in particular I think was not highlighted enough. That’s why I want to discuss it here. It was discussed in the following talks during WWDC: […]
WWDC Day 1 continued
Hello again from San Francisco! I just came back from the conference after attending it for the third day in a row! I have seen many interesting talks so far ranging from Swift to WatchKit and UI design. There is so much to talk about, but in my previous blog entry I could only cover […]
WWDC Day 1
Greetings from my hotel room in San Francisco, from where I’m writing this blog post. Right now it’s Tuesday evening and it has been two exciting days at the WWDC which takes place this week from Monday the 8th until Friday the 12th of June as I had announced earlier. Although I have three more […]
Off to WWDC in two weeks!
Right now I am feeling lucky, happy and very excited. Why? Because in two weeks I am finally able to go to a conference I was dying to go to for several years. The conference I am talking about is WWDC, the World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Bridging the Gap: An Interview with Chicago User Group Leaders
It’s no secret that Chicago is an incredible city with a vibrant history, passionate sports fans, and very cold weather. However, what many people are starting to realize is that Chicago is also an up-and-coming home for the Tech Industry: with companies like 1871 and WeWork serving as incubators for newly hatched start-ups, the space […]
GOTO Amsterdam Newsletter
Thank you for taking your time to read our latest newsletter. This is the content of the newsletter sent on Thursday, March 27th, 2014. We hope you enjoy it. You can sign up for the GOTO Amsterdam newsletter on this page in the bottom right corner. Rod Johnson, Georges Saab & Chad Fowler We are […]
NLUUG DevOps Conference 2013 – Reliability, clouds and the UNIX way
Last Thursday I attended the NLUUG DevOps conference in Bunnik, near Utrecht. The NLUUG is the Dutch UNIX user group. In this blog I will summarize the talks I attended, some fun things I learned and I will discuss my own talk about continuous integration at a large organization.