What I’ve learned today

Inspired by the post by Scott Hanselman I switched to solarized color profile on my powershell and command prompts.

The best way to start is cloning this repository and read the instructions carefully.

Good luck getting solarized.

I use Restlet Client — DHC Chrome extension to test and access my REST API’s.

I need to access multiple environments with the same API deployed and Restlet makes this fairly easy to manage.

Add a new environment…

I watched Simon Sinek’s top 10 rules for success. You find a compilation from Evan Carmichael here.

Here are his 10 rules:

1. Break the rules
2. Train your mind
3. Be patient

Yesterday evening we had a late night session at SoCraTes in a Fishbowl format. I really enjoyed this type of discussion. I believe a lot of discussions going on could be improved with an open fishbowl technique.

I held a breakout session at the Swiss SoCraTes in Ftan about little helpers in your daily life as a developer or craftsperson.

I like to share the list with you what we came up with:

• biklabo: Simple drawing technique…

Yesterday at SoCraTes in Switzerland I was allowed to attend a session about gender and general diversity in our industry and the totally lack of it.

In our culture, society and workplaces there is a deep rooted lack of diversity and a misbehaviour in a…