Dates covered: November 21-27, 2016 (week 47 of 52) Career On Being Surpassed Gracefully (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture The code I’m still ashamed of (via The Software Mentor) Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication How I Share Information…
Ending the TL;DL Experiment
For the last month (since October 26, 2016), I’ve been running an experiment to see if the following project would have any impact: I listen to .NET Rocks! to keep up with what’s going on with .NET development. The episodes…
RPM 72 Review
Here’s my quarterly RPM review post giving some details and thoughts about the 2016 Q4 release, RPM 72. 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…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1379 (SQL Choices with Tony Petrossian)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1379 (SQL Choices with Tony Petrossian) Guest: Tony Petrossian (pronounced peh-TROH-see-uhn) Show Notes Discussion about the IoT comment from the listener (see below) Many customers store data in SQL Server because of in-memory processing, analytics, and the…
RPM AIM-2
Last weekend (Nov 19-20, 2016) I attended my second Advanced Instructor Module (AIM) for a Les Mills program; this module focused on RPM (release 72). This post is about my experience. TL;DR — 1. I now have advanced instructor status; 2….
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1378 (Science of Great UI with Mark Miller)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1378 (Science of Great UI with Mark Miller) Guest: Mark Miller Show Notes What’s is the training course on UI you’ve been working on? It contains cognitive science research (experiments) with original conclusions that lead to guidelines for…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1377 (The Marketing of .NET with Beth Massi)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1377 (The Marketing of .NET with Beth Massi) Guest: Beth Massi Show Notes Beth Massi has software development experience, but is now the product marketing manager for .NET. Traditional marketing does not work with developers: you need…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 46
Dates covered: November 14-20, 2016 (week 46 of 52) Career Low Risk vs. High Risk (via The Software Mentor) 6 Tips for New Engineering Managers (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication 5 ways to hone your production incident postmortems (via Software Lead Weekly)…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1376 (Connect Debrief with Scott Hunter)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1376 (Connect Debrief with Scott Hunter) Guest: Scott Hunter Show Notes Many of the topics from this show were discussed at the Connect 2016 conference. See also: .NET Core Roadmap What’s new in .NET Core 1.1? .NET…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1375 (Mobile Development using F# with Scott Nimrod)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1375 (Mobile Development using F# with Scott Nimrod) Guests: Scott Nimrod Show Notes Regarding the listener e-mail comment It’s often a losing battle to convince management who have an incomplete understanding of software quality to adopt new techniques…