For the past few years, I’ve been a team lead for my company. I think of it as “management lite,” where I don’t have all the responsibility, but I get to figure out how to manage tasks and the people…
Domain-driven Design Concepts Reference
For my primary software project at work, the solution is structured based on concepts that are part of domain-driven design (DDD). It seems like each time I revisit the concepts, they jell a little more. Given that (1) my company will…
BODYJAM 72 Review
Overview BODYJAM 72 (AKL Attack the Beat) is the 2015 Q2 release. Here’s the overall format: Warmup Isolations (2 tracks) Rock ‘N’ Roll Attack the Beat (6 tracks) Recovery Rage the Night Away (8 tracks) Groovedown For the Mash It block,…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 21
Dates covered: May 18-24, 2015 (week 21 of 52) Career Four Reasons You Should Stop Feeling Guilty About Leaving Your Job (via Lifehacker) Talent vs. Labour (via Cameron Presley) Traits of Exceptional Engineers (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Are Your Meetings Worth Attending? (via…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 20
Dates covered: May 11-17, 2015 (week 20 of 52) Career .NET Rocks! 1138: Shepherding Novice Developers with Jeff Casimir (via .NET Rocks!) Why There are No Right or Wrong Career Moves (via Lifehacker) How to Build a Stronger Team When You’re Not the…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 19
Dates covered: May 4-10, 2015 (week 19 of 52) Career There’s No Such Thing as No Project Management (via Phillip Andreason) The Programming Talent Myth – PyCon 2015 Keynote – Jacob Kaplan-Moss (via Greg Jorgensen) 8 Career Tips That Don’t Require Competence (via…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 18
Dates covered: April 27-May 3, 2015 (week 18 of 52) Career Your definition of accountability is all wrong (via Pluralsight Blog) .NET Rocks! 1132: Cultivating Successful Development Habits with Llewellyn Falco (via .NET Rocks!) 10 Ways to Make the Most of Your…
Cultivating Successful Development Habits
Today’s .NET Rocks! podcast featured an interview with Llewellyn Falco, who does coaching/consulting work for companies that are trying to improve their processes and techniques. There were several concepts that were worth noting, so I thought I’d create the TL;DL (too…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 17
Dates covered: April 20-26, 2015 (week 17 of 52) Career Defining The Corporate Hierarchy (via Erik Dietrich) Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Software Architect (via Lifehacker) How to Interview Your Interviewers (via Alan Barber) 5 Questions To Ask Yourself Every Morning…
RPM 66 Review
RPM 66 is the 2015 Q2 release. You may also want to check out my comments on just the music. Track-by-Track Breakdown Pack Ride – Angel in Blue Jeans Unlike the last four releases, we gradually find Racing load over the first…