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…
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)…
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…
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…
Notes on .NET Rocks! 1260 on Agile Change
This post is a placeholder for some notes I jotted down about a recent .NET Rocks! podcast (episode 1260) where the hosts, Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin spoke with guest Chris McDermott. Context It’s been three months since I’ve started a new…
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…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 7
Dates covered: February 15-21, 2016 (week 7 of 52) Culture GitHub Activity Guilt and the Coder’s FitBit (via The Software Mentor) Get Off of GitHub (via The Software Mentor) Don’t create a sense of urgency, foster a sense of purpose. (via Software Lead…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 6
Dates covered: February 8-14, 2016 (week 6 of 52) Career You Weren’t Born to Just Write Code and Die (via The Software Mentor) Coding as a Career Isn’t Right for Me (via The Software Mentor) Creating a Career Path (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 5
Dates covered: February 1-7, 2016 (week 5 of 52) Career We’re Not Beasts, So Let’s Not Act Like It (via Erik Dietrich) Is Unlimited PTO a Good Deal for Me? (via Erik Dietrich) Communication Shorter Feedback is Not Always Bett (via Software Lead…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 4
Dates covered: January 25-31, 2016 (week 4 of 52) Career Hire Literally Anyone (via The Software Mentor) 10 Tips for Successfully Working from Home (via The Software Mentor) The Architect Title Over-Specialization (via Erik Dietrich) How to Hire (via Software Lead Weekly) Hiring…