Tonight I gave my first community talk ever at the Symfony User Group Rhein/Main. Now, how did that happen ?
The first real coding conference I attended was the Macoun (a Mac/iOS conference in Frankfurt). At the time I did not know any Objective-C (it was 2011 and Swift was still years away), but...
For a long time now, I dreamed of having my own iPhone app. I have had many ideas - maybe too many - but none ever made it past a few sketches or a very basic prototype in Xcode's storyboard.
And then, when I finally decided to sit down a few days and begin learning Objective-C, Apple dropped the...