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 22
Dates covered: May 30-June 5, 2016 (week 22 of 52) Culture Why the Best Companies and Developers Give Away Almost Everything They Do (via The Software Mentor) All Your Teammates Will Be Gone (via The Software Mentor) The Quiet Crisis Unfolding in…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 21
Dates covered: May 23-29, 2016 (week 21 of 52) Career How to Worry Less about Being a Bad Programmer (via Peter Welch) Communication A Primer on Giving Critical Feedback (via Software Lead Weekly) Management 31 Ways to Know Your Project Is Doomed (via…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 20
Dates covered: May 16-22, 2016 (week 20 of 52) Career Did Programming Stop Being Fun? Let’s Fix It. (via Cameron Presley) Ask HN: If you restarted your career, what would you do differently? (via Software Lead Weekly) I’m a Boring Programmer…
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…