Here’s my quarterly RPM review post giving some details and thoughts about the 2017 Q1 release, RPM 73. I’ll start with my general thoughts for the release, and if you’re interested in a track-by-track breakdown, keep on reading. General Thoughts…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 6
Dates covered: February 6-12, 2017 (week 6 of 52) Career The Disease of More (via Mark Manson) The 10 Commandments of Good Thinking (via Software Lead Weekly) Senior Engineers Reduce Risk (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture GitLab’s Secret to Managing 160 Employees…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 5
Dates covered: January 30-February 5, 2017 (week 5 of 52) Career Lessons from 3,000 technical interviews… or how what you do after graduation matters way more than where you went to school (via The Software Mentor) The New Grad Rotation Program:…
Professional Year in Review (2016)
DPRA, Inc. JFAST Implemented multiple features and fixed several bugs for Release 7 of JFAST, a system that allows military planners to perform transportation and logistics feasibility analyses for selecting the best course of action Became a team lead; this involved taking more…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 4
Dates covered: January 23-29, 2017 (week 4 of 52) Career Superhuman Developers, Decision Fatigue and Procrastination (via The Software Mentor) Bad Advice I Have Received (via The Software Mentor) Finding Your Way from Maker to Manager (via Software Lead Weekly) A better way…
Work Culture Commentary from .NET Rocks! 1406
I was catching up on my podcast listening while doing some chores this weekend. One of these was .NET Rocks! 1406: Punishment Driven Development with guest Louise Elliott. There were too many times when I told myself “oooh, that’s good…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 3
Dates covered: January 16-22, 2017 (week 3 of 52) Career How do I outlast the software engineer gold rush/massive influx? (via The Software Mentor) Ten Tips for People Early in Their Careers (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication On Better Meetings (via Software Lead…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 2
Dates covered: January 9-15, 2017 (week 2 of 52) Career Show Up, Kick Ass, Go Home (via The Software Mentor) The Reality of Developer Burnout (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture How to avoid empathy fatigue on your support team (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 1
Dates covered: January 2-8, 2017 (week 1 of 52) Career Make Goals Based on Your Own Values, Not Someone Else’s (via Lifehacker) Focus Your Ambitions with the Lifehacker Hierarchy of Goals (via Lifehacker) If You Can’t Be Trusted With Little Things, No…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 52
Dates covered: December 26, 2016 – January 1, 2017 (week 52 of 52) Career Don’t Sign That Contract! Developer Job Deal Breakers (via The Software Mentor) .NET Rocks! 1394: Software Development Apprenticeship with Will Gant and BJ Burns (via .NET Rocks!) I’m…