My Apprenticeship
My days as an apprentice are slowly coming to an end. As the final day arrives, I have an irresistible desire to share. I would like to share...
Self Organization
I remember the very first day as an apprentice at HolidayCheck. Honestly, it was only four months ago, not so hard to recall. The thing is, it...
The HolidayCheck Apprenticeship
Yesterday marked the public launch of the HolidayCheck Apprenticeship Program. If you want to apply, you can do so right now at https://apprenticeship.holidaycheck.com - But for now,...
Go: The Beginning
We’ve been already using Go at HolidayCheck for quite some time. There are some services written with Go and also the primary user of it is our infrastructure...
Apprenticeship @ HolidayCheck: One month in
On the 16th of January, exactly 1 month ago I was starting my journey as an apprentice at HolidayCheck. At that point, the whole idea of the apprenticeship...
Haskellaus: Haskell meets Nikolaus
Last Friday we had a very special Haskell meeting at HolidayCheck - we called it Haskellaus. In this post I will explain what it was about and then...
Haskell Learning Group: Our Progress and Updates
This post is a quick update and the latest news about our Haskell learning group. Even though there were no blog posts on this topic recently, we are...
Haskell Learning Group: Beyond Maths (2nd Session)
The previous blog post was an introduction to our Haskel Learning Group. This is a new initiative that we started at HolidayCheck recently. As the first chapter...
#jbhc17 from my perspective
When I first heard about JB coming to HolidayCheck to work with us I was excited. I hadn’t heard much about him then, so I began googling...
Haskell Learning Group - first meeting
In HolidayCheck we believe in the value of learning new things. So the last week we held a first meeting of our Haskell Learning Group. The point of...
J.B. Rainsberger in da house
It started in May, when we thought about inviting J.B. Rainsberger to HolidayCheck. Yeah, there was some bias from my side, since I had the pleasure to...
Apprenticeship at 8th Light
Officially it was 2006 that 8th Light says they had started the apprenticeship program. From reading a bit around and searching for related articles online, it seems...
Learning from 8th Light, Day 1
It all started at BusConf, this August. Tobias Pflug (a colleague from HolidayCheck) asked Daniel Irvine (from 8th Light London) if we could come over...
62 Engineers, 1 All-inclusive hotel
Early in May this year, all HolidayCheck IT engineers, Scrum masters and line managers from all our locations in Poland, Germany and Switzerland had their regular all-developers meetup.
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Stretch your mind every morning with coding kata at HC
A code kata is an exercise in programming which helps a programmer hone their skills through practice and repetition
CoP Testing #2 - Structuring Tests
At HolidayCheck we are doing “Communities of Practice” for various things. The one I started, is the “CoP Testing”, which cares about all things around testing. Since...
Async Function Kata at #jslang Meetup
The callback-hell times are long over. We have better tools now. But which of the new kids on the block do you want to play with? In this...