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I’ve been talking to lot’s of developers lately. And most of them were surprised what kind of events are happening in Cologne. But the list is huge. On the one hand there (un)conferences like the famous Nodecamp and the winning Pirate Summit or the upcoming NoSQLMatters. But on the other hand there are tons of monthly meetups:

• Likemind
• HN Meetup
• DevHouseFriday
• Ruby
• JavaScript
• Python
• BonnAgile
• Cologne Web Performance
• Limited WIP
• …

The site hcking.de has a pretty good overview.

So Cologne Hacks. Developers get out there and network. There is tons to learn and nice people to meet!

“I’m leaving it-agile”. “You’ve gotta be kidding”.

In the last six years I was lucky to be part of the greatest agile shop in Germany. We don’t just sell agile in our products. We truly believe in them. You can see this in our daily work, in our communication with each other and especially in the type of our company: it-agile is an employee owned company and every single employee has the opportunity to play an important role.

So why am I leaving? First of all I want to make sure that I am near my family. Although I was quite lucky, arranging the traveling with a healthy family life is quite a challenge. The second reason is the opportunity at my new company.

I would really like to thank everybody at it-agile. It was fun and exciting years. I learned a lot and it was great working with you! I wish you all the best. I know that you are going to stay the agile market leader. For a good reason.

So my new company is Adcloud. An exciting advertising technology company which builds the worlds first open advertising ecosystem. I am going to join the team as the technical product manager and will help grow agile development. I am so looking forward to this exciting company and my new colleagues.

Hope to see you soon everybody. And keep coding.
Matthias

I just noticed that I haven’t kept my keen readers updated on my conference participations:

End of march I will be at the MobileTechCon in Munich. Together with my good friends from Uxebu we will do a workshop about creating mobile HTML5 apps. Really looking forward to this workshop! And lots of people too: it is sold out since weeks! On wednesday I’ll be giving a talk about the same topic.
And my colleague Sven will be giving a talk about refactoring a Top 10 iPhone App. He is going to give some great insights! So stop by our booth and lets chat about mobile, agile and beer in Bavaria.

There is another conference coming up in May. Details soon.

I am the WJAX right now. Here are some impressions of the first day. Enjoy.