Disclaimer: This post was automatically published a few hours after the event so let's hope everything went according to plan. I recently had the opportunity to organise a meetup, that revolved around the idea of knowledge exchange and community building. I've had this idea for a very long time. Ever since I was working with the team over @koding, where I helped grow the community and before that, when I was in collage, because I couldn't find any clubs or meetups of like minded people around my hometown. But you may ask why a real life event, instead of creating...
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Recently I started working on a project that required me to have the backend part installed locally, instead of using a remote backend. The project uses Maven as a build tool and it deploys the code to a Tomcat server. I got cracking and started configuring the project on my local machine. The first thing I noticed is that Intellij IDEA Community does not have a Tomcat plugin, unlike the Ultimate edition, that has one out of the box. Many Google searches later I found a few plugins that might do the trick but when I tried using them, the...
You have no idea what I'm talking about, right? That's because not many people use the term bikeshedding. It's not a usual term that people just throw around all the time. Bikeshedding is when you argue about some meaningless thing and tend to avoid the more important issue at hand. For example Urban Dictionary tells us this: Technical disputes over minor, marginal issues conducted while more serious ones are being overlooked. The implied image is of people arguing over what color to paint the bicycle shed while the house is not finished. Let's take the above image as an example....
A more appropriate title would be: should I meet the locals or do I have any locals that I should meet and when I say locals I'm referring to local developers / web designers around my area or even around the country. I have a big issue with this topic. How so, you may ask? Well for starters, around my city there is a lack of social gatherings and a shortage of developer communities. Either there are some that are so underground that not even the NSA knows about or they simply don't exist. I prefer the latter. Not having these...
What are you talking about? How can I create a community if I don’t have a tool to start with? Maybe if you keep reading you’ll understand. For now, the only thing you really need to know is that you need a 60 feet long rope, some duct tape and that it takes a lot of time, effort and practice to get it done, but you’ll eventually get the hang of it. Let me start you off with a little bit of history to better understand this concept, that people adopted in the early days of software...