https://progmot.com/Recent content in Thoughts About Programming & Motivation | progmot on Thoughts About Programming & Motivationhttps://progmot.com/img/progmot-general-featured-image.pnghttps://progmot.com/img/progmot-general-featured-image.pngHugo -- 0.128.2en-us2024https://progmot.com/post/giving-my-first-talk-at-a-public-conference/Mon, 20 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0200https://progmot.com/post/giving-my-first-talk-at-a-public-conference/Journey & Lessons Learned - Stepping out of my comfort zone to give a technical talk at a public conference in front of more than 150 developers.https://progmot.com/newsletter/Fri, 03 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://progmot.com/newsletter/Right-sized inspiration around productivity, freelancing, mindset, and motivation as a software developer. 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Make sure to also check your Spam and Promotions folder.https://progmot.com/post/self-publishing-a-book-with-almost-complete-strangers/Mon, 18 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0200https://progmot.com/post/self-publishing-a-book-with-almost-complete-strangers/A two-year retrospect after co-authoring and self-publishing a technical ebook on Leanpub about Java, Spring Boot, and AWS with co-authors I met on Twitter.https://progmot.com/projects/Tue, 05 Apr 2022 11:11:46 +0200https://progmot.com/projects/Excerpt of the projects I’m currently working on: Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS (ebook & online course) Testing Spring Boot Applications Made Simple Blog (blog) Testing Spring Boot Applications Masterclass (online course) YouTube channel (hands-on videos)https://progmot.com/post/creating-and-selling-my-first-online-course/Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:09:00 +0200https://progmot.com/post/creating-and-selling-my-first-online-course/A one-year retrospect after creating and selling my first online course: my strategy, the actual journey, mistakes, and recommendations.https://progmot.com/about/Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://progmot.com/about/Hi 👋 I’m Philip, a freelance IT consultant and Indie Hacker from 🇩🇪. On my main blog rieckpil I’m creating content under the slogan Testing Spring Boot Applications Made Simple with a focus on Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, and AWS 🍃 This site acts as a meta blog for topics that don’t fit on a technical blog: freelancing, motivation, indie hacking, productivity, etc. I’ve co-authored Stratospheric - an eBook on getting started with Spring Boot on AWS (Amazon Web Services).https://progmot.com/imprint/Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:40:13 +0200https://progmot.com/imprint/Information pursuant to Sect. 5 German Telemedia Act (TMG) PragmaTech Digital Solutions Philip Riecks c/o WeWork Berlin Warschauer Pl. 11-13 10245 Berlin Contact E-mail: philip@progmot.com VAT ID Sales tax identification number according to Sect. 27 a of the Sales Tax Law: DE343982426 Person responsible for editorial Philip Riecks EU dispute resolution The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (ODR): https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/. 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For detailed information about the subject matter of data protection, please consult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy.https://progmot.com/post/committing-code-to-github-for-365-consecutive-days/Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:58:36 +0000https://progmot.com/post/committing-code-to-github-for-365-consecutive-days/Read about one of my latest established habit as a developer: Write code for at least 30 minutes a day for one year to improve skillshttps://progmot.com/post/making-first-place-at-my-second-hackathon/Sun, 28 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0200https://progmot.com/post/making-first-place-at-my-second-hackathon/Read about how I made first place at my second Hackathon Digital Tech Summit. For Siemens Healthineers we developed a solution to track medical packageshttps://progmot.com/post/my-first-hackathon/Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:51:26 +0000https://progmot.com/post/my-first-hackathon/Read about my first Hackathon: HACK|BAY 2018 in Nuremberg hosted by ZOLLHOF with a InsurTech solution for vehicle registration documentshttps://progmot.com/post/why-you-should-join-stackoverflow/Sun, 07 Jan 2018 04:18:58 +0000https://progmot.com/post/why-you-should-join-stackoverflow/Read about why I joined Stack Overflow and started to help other developers and why you should consider joining to support each otherhttps://progmot.com/post/summary-of-the-container-conf-2017/Tue, 21 Nov 2017 16:00:59 +0000https://progmot.com/post/summary-of-the-container-conf-2017/Read about my review and summary about the Container Conf 2017 in Mannheim and my top five key learnings from this three-days conference