With this post I start a new series in this blog: At every beginning of a new year I wanna do a retroperspective (motivated by Agile…) of the technical stuff in my life that happens during the last year. Mostly about the stuff I learned. So, here it goes and I hope it does not annoy you too much.

Achievements

• gained a lot experience in working in teams and how to manage critical situations
• improved knowledge about continuous delivery
• improved skills in TDD, BDD, ATDD
• gained more experience in managing code quality
• improved skills in scripting builds
• improved usage of Sonar
• held many talks on conferences and events about testing, Sonar and Scala
• finally started this blog :-)

Technologies

• Play Framework 1 & 2 (Java, Scala)
• RabbitMQ, only for a spike but I enjoyed it a lot
• Elasticsearch, bad documentation but nevertheless a great technology
• MongoDB, the classic NoSql store
• Redis
• Spring MVC mostly for building REST apis
• JavaScript, oh geez a lot of JavaScript
• AngularJS, only a bit
• PhoneGap, the I/O related part for iOS
• Vagrant for setting up dev VMs
• Chef, only changing some configuration in existing scripts
• Ruby for web development
• Sinatra for a tiny web project, great framework

Events

• visited many Java Usergroup Berlin events
• attended some conferences: BedCon, gearconf, Java Forum Stuttgart
• organized tech talks at my current employer, adesso AG