johanmynhardt

So, talking in front of people made me nervous. While it can only be the worst benchmark for me, I'm looking forward to improve my presentation in the future. The presentation covered Maven from creating a project to Continuous Integration using Apache Continuum. My aim is to create an example project that can be used. I have spent a long time getting to the point where I could produce this. It was not easy and there are some features that I would like to fix in due time, but for now, my presentation is looking good enough :) The actual project resources are not available as yet. I did a localhost set up, but for it to be perfect, I need to set it up in a real-world environment. In the meantime, enjoy the presentation! (We were pressed for time, so I tried to keep it as short as possible, giving a basic overview of what is needed. Maven scratch-to-production View more presentations from Johan Mynhardt

Lately I have been riding the development roller-coaster and it leaves you with mixed emotions, some which you do not need, and others you really enjoy. But choosing the path less travelled by means to accept the fact that you have to explore the unknown. The unknown? Yes, the unknown. Even though there are so much resources to start from, every little thing in development is in the state of the "unknown" at some point. It is something that you have to figure out or struggle with by yourself. For example it does not mean that if you can write on paper that you will write the next best-selling novel or that if you can dice unions that you can be a surgeon. Physically they have something in relation, mentally it is something totally different. At work the cycles are something similar. You know the bare basics but to complete the task you have to dig in the mud, getting down and dirty, even finding that sometimes the mud can be more than just mud. Every time just as I start to f...