Developers guide to being awesome

I am awesome!

why am i awesome?

i am a developer!

• I create great stuff out of nothing
• I bring order to chaos (sometimes also the other way around)
• I tell the machines what they must do

i like developing

• its not a 9to5 job for me
• its more like getting paid for my hobby :D
• i want to be better.
• i read
• i go to user groups
• i go to conferences
• i watch conference streams/videos
• i want that my colleges/programmer friends also get better
• when i get new information or find a new cool project
• i try to get my programmer friend or colleges to also read/watch over it - because they have maybe another point of view to new ideas/project and talk with them helps me to be even more awesome and as side-effect there awesomelevel also grows ;)

Thats why i am really awesome.

• are you also awesome?
• do you wane be awesome?

What do you need to become as awesome as i am?

at first grow your self a beard - but i think this is some sort of optional.

READ!

• if you dont do this already, read, read alot.
• read on a daily base and try to find new information.
• read blogs
• read books - clean code is an awsome book
• read sourcecode - getting his head around other projects is really cool

WRITE!

• write code
• write good code
• write bad code
• just write code and think about it
• refactor it, delete it, start over
• also some cool stuff are code katas, small lessons that can be mostly done in 15-50, minutes to just trani your brain for all the standard problems

TALK!

• go to usergroups
  • its not just because of the talks
  • its also because of the pauses, the talks between people
  • try to get your coworkers to also go to user groups, its more fun for you and maybe they also learn new stuff
• go to conferences
  • ok there are not really cheap, but look out for unconferences like the php unconference in hamburg or the cheap ones like the froscon
  • on conferences its also a lot about socailising and talking to other developers, but this is also a very good point of learnign and getting/sharing information

SHARE!

• When you find great information share it with your collegs/code friends
• When you wrote some awesome pice of code put it, when possible, as open Source and let everyone use it
• When you have great ideas share them in a talk in a usergroup or on a conference.