Dates covered: May 11-17, 2015 (week 20 of 52)
Career
- .NET Rocks! 1138: Shepherding Novice Developers with Jeff Casimir (via .NET Rocks!)
- Why There are No Right or Wrong Career Moves (via Lifehacker)
- How to Build a Stronger Team When You’re Not the Boss (via Lifehacker)
Communication
- The Art of Feedback: Striking a Balance Between Guidance and Criticism (via Lifehacker)
- A New Kind of Blog (via Erik Dietrich)
- Introduction to Presentation Design
- How I Prepare Conference Talks (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Appeasers, Crusaders, and Why Meetings Usually Suck (via Erik Dietrich)
Craftsmanship
Culture
- How to Survive 80+ Hours of Programming Every Week (via Cameron Presley)
- An Open Letter to Tony Hsieh (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Hacking Company Culture (via Software Lead Weekly)
- Leadership, Mentoring and Team Chemistry, the Soft Skills needed for DevOps (via Software Lead Weekly)
- How to Make a New Coworker Feel Welcome (via Lifehacker)
Management
Productivity
- Why You Should Be Tracking Your Habits (and How to Do It Well) (via Lifehacker)
- Your First Choice Is Rarely Optimal: Five Lessons on Being Wrong (via Lifehacker)
Software development
- 9 Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of (via Simon Philp)
- Programming Sucks (via Greg Jorgensen)
- ChessTDD 34: Specflow for Pawn Movement (via Erik Dietrich)
- Practical Refactoring (via Cultivating Successful Development Habits)
Technology
- .NET Rocks! 1137: Azure and BizTalk with Sam Vanhoutte (via .NET Rocks!)
- .NET Rocks! 1139: Biological Computing with Colin Gravill (via .NET Rocks!)
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (via Randy Dodgen)