the very first blog
by Konstantin Petrov
What has happened and what have I done in the year 2017. The post covers only work related staff, nothing about personal life.
Last year:
The core function of our organization is dealing with customer needs, so the ticketing system is essential.
Before the year 2017 we had a home grown ticketing system from late 90-s. It was connected to every process and tool inside the company. The work of integrating the new system was very challenging, but also very satisfying.
I have started working in Scrum teams the first year I became a developer. It was in JNetX, 8 years ago.
Much later, when I came to Otixo, I have tried to introduce Scrum process in there but didn’t succeded.
Here, after previous Scrum Master decided to leave the company I volonteered to take the role.
I did the training and I liked it. Passed the certification.
I am still on the very first steps of this way, a lot to do still, a lot to learn.
You are reading this only because I came back to blogging. Partly inspired by the Nullprogram blog, partly driven with the urge to create. Also, I am practicing English here and at some point I will practice Dutch.
This blogging thing brought me to the questions I always worried about but never answered.
I am trying to answer this questions now.
I read a lot, especialy this year. About relationships, about human nature and flows.
I learned vim to the point I feel uncomfortable without vim like controls. Also I have fixed one bug in the IntelliJ IDEA vim plugin, and I hope that it will be merged to the main brunch soon.
I tryed to write bash scripts, and I found it useful. I dislike the conditional clauses in bash a lot though.
This year I have tryed Kotlin - the very practical language. It is ok, and when you have to do a lot of work it can help. The projects I have now I will write in Kotlin, just to understand it fully.
As the matter of learning some ways of the functional programming I started learning Haskell. It is fun.
I decided to write my own blogging software, the things we have now is nice but I would like to make nicer one.
Also, the own shopping list project is started - I have managed to create a list of features I need most and I know how to get them.
I just started, I like it, I need to learn more because I want to stay here.
With cycling to work almost every day I got nice fitness, but I found it is not enough. Also, I like to think while I am running. To do it safely, I started going to the gym.
I spoke about performance testing and I gave a talk about our work on Zendesk project and I liked both.
It went well, so I will try to speak more. We have a small conference in our department every two weeks, it is a good opportunity to polish skills and move forward.
Soon I will create a post about plans for the next month - I think that planning for a year is way to long. Of course I have draft plan for a year, but monthly plans are much more useful.
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