Dates covered: October 31-November 6, 2016 (week 44 of 52) Career Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry (via Harvard Business Review Audible channel) Focus – my keynote at AgileByExample, Warsaw (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Status Meetings Are the Scourge (via Signal…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1370 (Data Lakes with Michael Rys)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1370: Data Lakes with Michael Rys Guest: Michael Rys (pronounced “riss”) Show Notes What is a data lake? It’s a new-ish approach on how to do analytics. A traditional data warehouse involves a schema, then you have…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1369 (Web Accessibility with Aaron Gustafson)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1369: Web Accessibility with Aaron Gustafson Guest: Aaron Gustafson Show Notes What is progressive enhancement? Think about the core experience, content, or task for your site, and be able to provide that regardless of the browser,…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1368 (Azure API Management with Vishwas Lele)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1368: Azure API Management with Vishwas Lele Guest: Vishwas Lele Show Notes What is API management? You may have a number of different APIs written by different groups that you want to consolidate. You want them grouped together consistently…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 43
Dates covered: October 24-30, 2016 (week 43 of 52) Career Should Custom Software Developers Be Generalists or a Specialists? (via The Software Mentor) How to Build a Strong Relationship with a New Boss (via Harvard Business Review Audible channel) Using Harsh Feedback…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1367 (WiX Toolset with Rob Mensching)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1367: WiX Toolset with Rob Mensching Guest: Rob Mensching Show Notes WiX Toolset is used for building MSI packages and deploying them. (Note: This is different than Wix.com, which is a website builder.) The first version of WiX…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1366 (Angular 2 Docs with Ward Bell)
I listen to .NET Rocks! to keep up with what’s going on with .NET development. The episodes are about 50 minutes each, and are very well done; however, there are occasions when I’d just like to know the highlights. If…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 42
Dates covered: October 17-23, 2016 (week 42 of 52) Communication We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers (via TED) Culture The myth of low-hanging fruit: Be careful when you use the word “easy” to describe other people’s jobs. (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Freakonomics Radio Episode: “In Praise of Maintenance”
In this post, I’d like to share some highlights (and some of my own comments) about an episode of Freakonomics Radio titled In Praise of Maintenance (published October 20, 2016). Personally I was delighted by the episode’s topic, given that several of the…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 41
Dates covered: October 10-16, 2016 (week 41 of 52) Career 7 Years of Blogging, and a Lifetime Later… (via The Software Mentor) Practical Frameworks for Beating Burnout (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Education through automation: Slack Concierge (via Software Lead Weekly) Community .NET…