Dates covered: April 4-10, 2016 (week 14 of 52) Communication The Cost of Being Right (via Erik Dietrich) Culture Creative Confidence (via Software Lead Weekly) You Can Bring a Horse to Water… (via Software Lead Weekly) Why you should care about engineering…
Getting Code Review Statistics Programmatically from TFS
This post describes how to use LINQPad to query a Team Foundation Server (TFS) instance so that code review statistics can be collected. Context The project I work on for my employer has an external release cycle of six months….
RPM 70 Review
The Fort Sanders Health and Fitness Center’s RPM team just launched this on Tuesday (Apr 5), and I’ve had a chance to teach it a few times. Here’s my quarterly RPM review post giving some details and thoughts about the…
April 2016 RPM Mix
Here’s my RPM track list for April 2016. We launched this release on April 5, and we are asked by management to stick with the new release for 3 weeks, so I’ll likely keep these tracks until the end of the…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 13
Dates covered: March 28-April 3, 2016 (week 13 of 52) Career Why You Shouldn’t Do What You Love (via The Software Mentor) How Quitting My Corporate Job for My Startup Dream F*cked up My Life (via The Software Mentor) How to Fall…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 12
Dates covered: March 21-27, 2016 (week 12 of 52) Career How to Get Back to Work after a Career Break (via TED) Making the Most of Grad School for Programmers (via Erik Dietrich) Management Why I Would Never Hire Steve Yegge (via The…
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…
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 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…
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…