Maximize your Productivity

When you’re at the beginning of your career as a software developer, like me, you probably know the feeling that you’re being overwhelmed by everything you want to learn. Especially at the beginning it is often not easy to work productively and to learn why I want to show you which methodologies I have developed for myself. Even though I use my own experience, my approach is of course not limited to the industry. ...

October 28, 2018 · 3 min · Marcel Jurtz

100 Days of Code

You might be familiar with the following situation: You are in your first job as a software developer and spend less and less time with your own projects? Or the time you spend on them is generally getting less and less? I have the problem right now and I’ve been thinking about what’s causing it and how I can work on it. Well, the main problem, in my opinion, is that I no longer have the pressure from my studies to learn to take an exam, for example. Although I want to advance my own projects, I have to force myself not to use my time elsewhere. And, according to the motto “it requires pressure to create diamonds” not much works without pressure. ...

October 14, 2018 · 3 min · Marcel Jurtz

How I Learn Anything Quickly

As a software developer, you are probably well aware of the feeling: You are overwhelmed by the amount of interesting stuff you want to test and learn. But I’m sure that this problem is also very common in other fields. If you feel like me, you may read and watch various books, blog articles or online courses, but you won’t really keep much of their contents. In today’s article, I’d like to help you to learn more effectively about the topics that really interest you, wasting less time. ...

July 29, 2018 · 4 min · Marcel Jurtz