March 21, 2016

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 11

Dates covered: March 14-20, 2016 (week 11 of 52) Career The Trouble with Career Sites (via Erik Dietrich) Spend Time with A+ People in Other Industries (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Firing People (via Software Lead Weekly) Management How Criticizing in Private Undermines…

March 14, 2016

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 10

Dates covered: March 7-13, 2016 (week 10 of 52) Career Chasing Developer Productivity Metrics (via Erik Dietrich) Communication Osmo Wiio: Communication usually fails, except by accident (via The Software Lead Weekly) Hitting the Right Level of Abstraction (via The Software Lead Weekly) Culture…

March 13, 2016

March 2016 RPM Mix

Here’s my RPM track list for March 2016. We’ll likely launch RPM 70 in mid-April. [table] Track,Title,Artist,Time,Release Pack Ride,Pumpin Blood,NONONO,4:32,63 Pace,The Spark,Afrojack feat. Spree Wilson,4:59,63 Hills,Maria (I Like It Loud) (R.I.O Remix),Scooter,6:06,63 Mixed Terrain,Cheating,John Newman,4:58,63 Intervals,Try It Again,The Hives,5:18,63 Speed Work,Dear…

March 7, 2016

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 9

Dates covered: February 29-March 6, 2016 (week 9 of 52) Career Developing Yourself: Handling Family, a Professional Life and Staying Sane (via Steve Smith) Culture Programming Is a Pop Culture (via The Software Mentor) Motivation You Don’t Have a Procrastination Problem, You…

March 6, 2016

Professional Year in Review (2015)

DAXOR Corporation Multichannel analyzer end-of-life project Created a project plan for implementing support for another vendor’s multi-channel analyzer; the plan listed business considerations (costs/benefits), known system components, and five objectives to accomplish the work (each with rationale, purpose, and deliverables)…

February 29, 2016

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 8

Dates covered: February 22-28, 2016 (week 8 of 52) Career Escaping the Legacy Skill Quicksand (via Erik Dietrich) The Value of Proving Yourself (via Lifehacker) How to Level up as a Developer (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture On Coders and Programmers (via The Software…

February 25, 2016

Notes on .NET Rocks! 1262 on Agile

This post is a placeholder for some notes I jotted down about a recent .NET Rocks! podcast (episode 1262) where the hosts, Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin spoke with guest Matthew Renze about the economics, psychology, and science of Agile. See also, my…

February 22, 2016

February/March 2016 RPM Mix

Here is my RPM track list for late-February through mid-March 2016. I’ll likely switch to another mix in March, and then we’ll launch RPM 70 in early April. See also: RPM 66 Music Review [table] Track,Title,Artist,Time Pack Ride,Angel in Blue Jeans,Train,5:44…