Lessons learned running React Vienna for a year — Motivation Before we deep dive into a list of recommendations I urge you to reflect for a minute why you are doing this? There are many upsides like finding mentors, mentoring others, establishing connections, becoming famous or even earning money. What motivates you? This is relevant to figure out what kind…

We all have different opinions on what code should look like. Most of the time it’s a matter of preference based on good arguments. When it comes to dangling commas I noticed most people didn’t like them until they understood the benefits. I didn’t either, until recently … Before we…

Stories & Lessons learned from Partners & Founders Paul Buchheit — Partner at Y Combinator & Creator of Gmail Paul for the first time had prepared a scripted talk and it was really good. He will publish the full talk on Twitter soon. Here are the 6 takeaways: #1 I don’t know anything It’s important to keep a beginner’s mind and…

There is good and bad news — Photo by Mark Fischer (https://www.flickr.com/photos/fischerfotos/) Let’s start with the bad news. According to the Google Online Security Blog App Engine was affected, but don’t panic. A patch has been written and I assume applied to the Google services on March 21st, long before the vulnerability became public. …

Photo by Jackie Meredith (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jackie_brand/) Google provides a great documentation on how to setup SSL on App Engine. RapidSSL has a couple of good hands on guides on how to generate a certificate, but none specific to the App Engine setup. I encourage you to read through all three of…

You have a feature in mind. It’s totally obvious how this solves your customer’s problems. Still it’s pretty tough to predict how and if people really will use it. A tight feedback loop with your customers helps you to identify this early on. Once a feature is released you figure…