Professional Development – 2016 – Week 24

Dates covered: June 13-19, 2016 (week 24 of 52) Career How to Win the Coding Interview (via The Software Mentor) Fresh Work (via The Software Mentor) Communication The Stress of Communication (via 8th Light Blog) How to Say You’re Sorry (via Software Lead Weekly)…

Notes on .NET Rocks! 1308 on “DevOps Is Dead”

This post is a placeholder for some notes I jotted down about a recent .NET Rocks! podcast (episode 1308) where the hosts, Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin spoke with guest Wes Higbee about software practices. Notes DevOps is dead on arrival, because we’re just seeing…

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 23

Dates covered: June 6-12, 2016 (week 23 of 52) Marketing Apple Confidential – Steve Jobs on “Think Different” – Internal Meeting Sept. 23, 1997 (via Software Lead Weekly) Motivation Motivate People by Encouraging Them to Make Choices (via Lifehacker) Process Convexity for…

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 19

Dates covered: May 9-15, 2016 (week 19 of 52) Career The Software Engineer’s Guide to Depreciating Your Resume (via Cameron Presley) Questions to Ask Your Interviewer (via Software Lead Weekly) Motivation Lean Back to Look Forward (via Software Lead Weekly) Psychology The Psychology…

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 18

Dates covered: May 2-8, 2016 (week 18 of 52) Career Implementers, Solvers, and Finders (via The Software Mentor) Being a Developer after 40 (via The Software Mentor) Learn to Love Networking (via Audible Channels) How to Start Speaking (in Tech Conferences) (via Software…

Kalamazoo X 2016

About the conference/trip This is my second year attending the soft-skills conference, Kalamazoo X. One of the things that drew me to this conference is that it deals with things that transcend any technology and any job at a certain company: the ability…

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 17

Dates covered: April 25-May 1, 2016 (week 17 of 52) Career 10 Rules of Professional Etiquette for the Digital Workplace (via Lifehacker) Hiring is Broken… And It Isn’t Worth Fixing (via Erik Dietrich) Computational science The Turing test: Can a computer pass…