Dates covered: December 8-14, 2014 (week 50 of 52)
Career
- A Tech Lead Paradox: Technical Needs vs. Business Needs (via The Morning Brew)
- Lazy Expert Syndrome: What Brought Down Al Capone Can Keep You On Top Of Your Game (via Cameron Presley)
- From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy (via Cameron Presley)
- Job Titles: Would a CEO by any other Name Smell as Sweet? (via Eric Dietrich)
- The Factors to Consider Beyond Salary When Evaluating a Job Offer (via Lifehacker)
- Five Things Job Candidates Obsess Over That Hiring Managers Don’t (via Lifehacker)
- Your Job Is Not to Write Code (via Software Lead Weekly)
Culture
- My Board Fired Me — Here’s What I Learned (via Software Lea d Weekly)
- How to get engineers to work for you instead of Facebook or Google (via Software Lead Weekly)
- An Inside Look at a Flat Organization That Serves Millions (via Software Lead Weekly)
Productivity
- The Power of Checklists (via Lifehacker)
- How to Craft an Information Diet That Actually Works (via Lifehacker)
- Switch Tasks to Refresh Your Perspective When Problem Solving (via Lifehacker)
- Killing the Crunch Mode Antipattern (via Jon Kruger)
Psychology
Quality
- Quality Goes to School (via Tim Hollifield)
Software & Technology
- Flexibility vs Simplicity? Why Not Both? (via Eric Dietrich)
- Microsoft goes public with more on its future plans for .NET (via Randy Dodgen)
- Apple’s first employee: The remarkable odyssey of Bill Fernandez (via Randy Dodgen)
- .NET Rocks! 1071: Hexagonal Architectures in .NET with Ian Cooper (via .NET Rocks!)
- Voice Recognition – Speech Recognition with .NET Desktop Applications (via MSDN Magazine, Dec 2014)
- .NET Rocks! 1072: Chrome Developer Tools with Shay Friedman (via .NET Rocks!)
- Replace Throwing Exceptions with Notifications in Validations (via The Morning Brew)
- .NET Rocks! 1073: Starting a Software Business with Liam Westley (via .NET Rocks!)
- Today I Learned the Law of Demeter (via The Software Mentor)
- Smart Unit Tests – a mental model (via The Morning Brew)
- How we’re spending $55,930.08 a year on SaaS products (via Software Lead Weekly)