Dates covered: January 4-10, 2016 (week 1 of 52) Career Transitioning to Meta-management (via The Software Mentor) On the unreasonable reality of “junior” developer interviews (via The Software Mentor) Developers: Here’s why you should make yourself replaceable (via Pluralsight Blog) How to Detect…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 52
Dates covered: December 28, 2015 – January 3, 2016 (week 52 of 52) Career The Best Way to Hire Developers (via Erik Dietrich) Mature Developers (via Software Lead Weekly) The Hardest, Shortest Lesson: Becoming a Manager (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication How…
January 2016 RPM Mixes
For the first few weeks this month, I’ll be revisiting RPM 61 (which I launched January 2014). Check out my preview commentary about the upcoming release, RPM 69, which we’ll be launching as a team on Saturday, January 23 at noon!…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 51
Dates covered: December 21-27, 2015 (week 51 of 52) Career How I Interview (via The Software Mentor) Rule One of Management: First, Do No Harm (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Stop Saying ‘Sorry’ If You Want to Say ‘Thank You’ (via Software Lead Weekly)…
RPM 69 Review
I’m trying something different for the Q1 2016 release of RPM by combining the music and release review into a single post. This comes not only as a simplification so that I only have one post to create, but because…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 51
Dates covered: December 14-20, 2015 (week 51 of 52) Career The Case for a Digital Notebook (via Erik Dietrich) What I Tell All New Programmers (via The Software Mentor) Do the Right Thing (via Software Lead Weekly) Your Best Employees WILL Leave You. Here’s…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 50
Dates covered: December 7-13, 2015 (week 50 of 52) Career Managers, Developers, and the In Between (via The Software Mentor) Why Hiring Is So Hard in Tech (via The Software Mentor) Onboarding Engineers: How to Tackle the First 30 Days (via The Software Mentor)…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 49
Dates covered: November 30-December 6, 2015 (week 49 of 52) Career 5 Reasons You Should Stop Trying to Live Up to Your Potential and Start Actually Living Instead (via Pluralsight Blog) Programmer, Developer, Engineer: What’s in a Name? (via Cameron Presley) The 2015…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 48
Dates covered: November 23-29, 2015 (week 48 of 52) Career Why the Best Hire Might Not Have the Perfect Resume (via TED) First Things First (via The Software Mentor) Communication Your Coworker’s Bad Code: Having The Hard Conversation (via Erik Dietrich) NYPD Hostage…
December 2015 RPM Mix
This month I’ll be revisiting RPM 65 (which we launched January 2015). Check out my comments about the music and general comments about the release. In January we’ll be launching the brand new RPM 69, so stay tuned for a post in…