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title: eurucamp 2014
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published_date: "2014-08-04 14:15:00 +0200"
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[](//tmp.fnordig.de/eurucamp2014/2014-08-01_09.58.46.jpg)
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I'm just heading back to Aachen from [eurucamp 2014][eurucamp].
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And all I can say is: What an awesome conference!
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I met a lot of great people, had nice chats with a lot of new people, heard a lot of great and inspiring talks
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and had a lot of fun.
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Besides the usual stuff you expected at a tech conference. there were also a lot activities happening.
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It started with the [conference party][confparty] Friday evening.
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Saturday noon was reserved for lots of activities, [kayaking on the Griebnitzsee][kayaking], with a jump into the sea afterwards of course,
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a [slip'n'slide][slipnslide] on the venue's lawn and some [football][] there as well.
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During the talks I took some notes, just to remember things for myself, but I think it's also a good idea to write these down publicly.
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There was also the [Camp Compressor][camp-compressor], the eurucamp's own podcast, with interviews of speakers and attendees.
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Listen to it to get even more cool discussions and information.
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_(Hint: I was interviewed for Episode 3 ;))_
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### Workshop: How to do Static Analysis Driven Refactoring
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Friday afternoon I went to the Workshop [How to do Static Analysis Driven Refactoring][static-analysis].
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Christophe showed us how a few tools can help to improve and refactor your existing code base. The whole list of tools is listed [in a Gist][gist-static-analysis].
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He made it clear how these tools lead to better code quality, especially if you're a small team or even working alone. I will definitely try to use some of them.
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### Keynote
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In the evening the real conference began with [nusco's][nusco] keynote.
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He told us about how to be a really great developer. There are 3 stages in most things:
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1. Simple, most of the time you can automate this away.
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2. Complicated. You have to think about the problem, but if you're good you find a solution
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3. Complex. These are the hard and most interesting problems. If you want to be a great developer you need to tackle these. For this you have to always learn.
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But it is especially important to don't just work on problems in one category. No one is a great developer from day one.
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Learn everyday. Be a _great_ developer at the end of the day.
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### Culture Eats Products For Breakfast
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Saturday started early. [Laura](https://twitter.com/laura_nobilis) told us how Culture influences your product.
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If you already have a project it's not that easy to get it into a new market in a new country with a complete different culture.
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The audience for your product has completely different expectations, the country may have different laws. All these things need to be considered to be successfull.
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[](//tmp.fnordig.de/eurucamp2014/2014-08-02_10.21.40.jpg)
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### Let's build a game with Ruby
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Right after that, [Rin][] gave a short live coding session in which she created a
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[small side-scroller game](https://github.com/rin/eurucamp) using Gosu, a 2D game development library.
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Quite fun and easy it seems.
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### It Takes a Village to Make a Programmer
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After a short coffee break [Michele](https://twitter.com/sheley) told us her story. She attended eurucamp last year and
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with the help of some great people from the community she managed to switch careers in less than a year.
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She encouraged all of us to give back to the community, help other people, mentor people or help people in otherways.
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### Internet of Dusty Things
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[Daniel](http://twitter.com/bovensiepen) talked about his DIY air purifier. Unhappy with the available proprietary and expensive products he sat down,
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purchased the necessary hardware and built a remote-controlled air purifier using
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[mruby](http://www.mruby.org/), a lightweight implementation of the Ruby language and some stripped-down libaries.
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### RubyMotion and Accessibility
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One of the best talks for me was the one about Accessibility held by [Austin](https://github.com/austinseraphin), a blind developer.
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He's using both an iPhone and a Mac, because all of these Apple systems have built-in accessibility features, like Voice Over, the screen reader in iOS and OS X.
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He also wrote software for [RubyMotion](http://www.rubymotion.com/) to make accessibility-testing even easier and
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showed how easy it is to make iPhone apps more accessible. It's build in by default anyway,
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adding information and labels is already a great improvement for every app. Test these things!
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[](//tmp.fnordig.de/eurucamp2014/2014-08-02_15.23.05.jpg)
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### Refactoring Ruby with Monads (or, Monads: The Good Parts)
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[Tom](https://twitter.com/tomstuart) gave one of the funniest and simplest introduction to Monads I heard.
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With just a few lines of Ruby code it's possible to implement Monads, which are just an "abstract data type".
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The code is available as a [gem and on GitHub](https://github.com/tomstuart/monads).
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<br>
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### Lightning Talks
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> @benlovell: Eurucamp is so awesome that actual lightning ended the lightning talks #ec14<br>
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> _([Twitter, 10:52 PM - 2 Aug 2014](https://twitter.com/benlovell/status/495673640713977857))_
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_(That's all it needs as a comment)_
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[](//tmp.fnordig.de/eurucamp2014/2014-08-02_20.28.48.jpg)
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### Utils is a Junk Drawer!
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Day 2 once again started early. [Frank](https://twitter.com/franklinwebber) took a look at what's in the project's utils folder, often it's junk.
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The speaker was interviewed in the Camp Compressor, Day One. As I heard that on the train ride to the venue I didn't listen too much in the talk, sorry!
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### The Scientific Method of Troubleshooting
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[Blithe](https://twitter.com/blithe) explained how the Scientific Method of Troubleshooting will help in software development as well.
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When troubleshooting, sometimes take a step back. Solving each and every problem by googling or looking at StackOverflow won't help.
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Instead think about the problem, try to understand why it happened, how it can be fixed correctly and how to avoid it to happen again.
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Document your troubleshooting, improve the documentation of your project so problems that were fixed won't happen again. And get help!
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If you can't solve the problem alone, talk to others. Sometimes that is all it needs.
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### Take note!
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[Såndra](https://twitter.com/pippidot) gave a short introduction how visual note taking can help to efficiently take notes and later also actually remember
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what you meant. Now if I could just draw better, but maybe with some practice I can do this better.
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[Oh, and she had the most awesome slides of all talks!](https://twitter.com/badboy_/status/495866118884827137)
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### Decentralize ALL THE THINGS
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The last talk I (really) heard was by [Jan](https://twitter.com/halfbyte). He talked about how all these centralized services are bad in nearly every aspect.
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But it's not only about self-hosting all your stuff (because that's **not** an option ever),
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it's also about decentralising our organisations and businesses to make the internet resilient against any kinds of threats again.
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## …and that's it.
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The whole weekend ended with some beers at the [eurucamp after party][pratergarten], again talking to a lot of different people, and a lot of different topics.
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I hope there will be a eurucamp 2015, because we're already [planning things for next year](https://twitter.com/eurucampcamp).
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Thanks to the whole [eurucamp team](http://2014.eurucamp.org/team/), thanks to all [speakers](http://2014.eurucamp.org/speakers)
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and thanks to all the great attendees!
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Hope to see some of you at [RedFrog Conf](http://ruby.froscon.org/) in just 2 weeks or at [RailsCamp Germany](http://2014.railscamp.de) in September.
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[nusco]: http://twitter.com/nusco
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[rin]: http://twitter.com/rinpaku
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[eurucamp]: http://2014.eurucamp.org/
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[gist-static-analysis]: https://gist.github.com/toch/ac3ca5d7e565ee3dc375
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[static-analysis]: http://activities.eurucamp.org/activities/3
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[git-monads]: https://github.com/tomstuart/monads
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[bovensiepen]: http://twitter.com/bovensiepen
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[camp-compressor]: http://2014.eurucamp.org/podcast/
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[slipnslide]: http://activities.eurucamp.org/activities/13
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[confparty]: http://activities.eurucamp.org/activities/25
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[kayaking]: http://activities.eurucamp.org/activities/35
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[football]: http://activities.eurucamp.org/activities/39
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[pratergarten]: http://activities.eurucamp.org/activities/28
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