Dates covered: February 16-22, 2015 (week 8 of 52)
Career
- On Being a Senior Engineer (via Rich Rogers)
- Write A Resignation Letter, But Don’t Deliver It (via Lifehacker)
- Technical Excellence and Professional Process (via David Starr)
- The Joel Test for Programmers (via John Sonmez)
- The Specialist-Generalist Balance (via The Morning Brew)
- Not Doing THIS Could Very Well Be The Biggest Mistake You Make In Your Software Development Career (via a comment on the A List Apart article above)
Communication
- BCC Is Evil, and a Cry for Help to E-mail Makers (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Would You Like People to Take You More Seriously? (via Lifehacker)
Culture
- When the going gets tough, craftsmen stay tougher (via 8th Light Blog)
- 12 remote workers reveal how to be happy, effective and valuable (via Software Lead Weekly)
- .NET Rocks! 1011: Building a Lean Enterprise with Jez Humble (via .NET Rocks!)
- The Chaos Theory of Startups (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Remote Developers (via Software Lead Weekly)
Economics
History
Management
- Atlassian’s Big Experiment with Performance Reviews (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How to Spot Future Leaders (via Software Lead Weekly)
- If You’re Not Delegating as a Manager, You’re Not Doing Your Job (via Lifehacker)
- Twitter’s CEO: How I Stay Focused under Fire (via Software Lead Weekly)
Productivity
- What’s Your Next Action? (via Eric Dietrich)
- Five Common Misconceptions About Productivity That Can Hold You Back (via Lifehacker)
Software Development
- Iteration Management – Post #1 – What Is Iteration Management? (via Jon Kruger)
- Iteration Management – Post #2 – What’s an Iteration Anyway? (via Jon Kruger)
- Iteration Management – Post #3 – Card Walls (via Jon Kruger)
- Don’t Waste Time Tracking Technical Debt (via Phillip Andreason)
- .NET Rocks! 1103: TDD on .NET and Java with Paul Mooney (via .NET Rocks!)
- ChessTDD 26: At Last, Acceptance Tests (via Eric Dietrich)
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Code Review (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Pairing as Pruning (via Software Lead Weekly)
Software
- .NET Rocks! 1102: Ionic Framework with Troy Miles (via .NET Rocks!)
- Ultimate Guide to Speeding Up ReSharper (and Visual Studio) (via .NET Rocks!)