Dates covered: July 25-31, 2016 (week 30 of 52) Career The Business-Personal Value Continuum (via Erik Dietrich) Don’t Let Your Professional Shortcomings Hold You Back at Work (via Lifehacker) A Compendium of Software Architects’ Pathologies (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Don’t pave the…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 29
Dates covered: July 18-24, 2016 (week 29 of 52) Career Sources of Inspiration (via Erik Dietrich) Actually Useful Questions to Ask in Informational Interviews (via Lifehacker) Technical Interviews – A Revised Process (via Software Lead Weekly) CodeStock Presentation: Soft Skills (via Justin Ellison)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 28
Dates covered: July 11-17, 2016 (week 28 of 52) Career Please Don’t Quit — Every Expert Was Once a Beginner (via The Software Mentor) .NET Rocks! 1322: Learning Tech on KataCoda with Ben Hall (via .NET Rocks!) Culture Diary of a Death March:…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 27
Dates covered: July 4-10, 2016 (week 27 of 52) Career Don’t Accept Counter Offers (via The Software Mentor) Finding Time to Become a Better Developer (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Confessions of a Public Speaker – by Scott Berkun (via The Software Mentor)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 26
Dates covered: June 27-July 3, 2016 (week 26 of 52) Career Q&A: Successful Developer Career Strategies (via The Software Mentor) Wanted: Ninja Rockstar Code Monkey Hacker Unicorn (via Software Lead Weekly) Six Things Junior Developers Wished They Could Tell You, and How…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 25
Dates covered: June 20-26, 2016 (week 25 of 52) Career What It Really Means to Niche Down (via Erik Dietrich) Culture There Is No Time for Empathy (via The Software Mentor) Returning from the Threshold of Misery (via Software Lead Weekly) Tradeoffs in…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 24
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…