DPRA, Inc. JFAST Implemented multiple features and fixed several bugs for Release 7 of JFAST, a system that allows military planners to perform transportation and logistics feasibility analyses for selecting the best course of action Became a team lead; this involved taking more…
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Professional Development – 2017 – Week 4
Dates covered: January 23-29, 2017 (week 4 of 52) Career Superhuman Developers, Decision Fatigue and Procrastination (via The Software Mentor) Bad Advice I Have Received (via The Software Mentor) Finding Your Way from Maker to Manager (via Software Lead Weekly) A better way…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 3
Dates covered: January 16-22, 2017 (week 3 of 52) Career How do I outlast the software engineer gold rush/massive influx? (via The Software Mentor) Ten Tips for People Early in Their Careers (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication On Better Meetings (via Software Lead…
Professional Development – 2017 – Week 1
Dates covered: January 2-8, 2017 (week 1 of 52) Career Make Goals Based on Your Own Values, Not Someone Else’s (via Lifehacker) Focus Your Ambitions with the Lifehacker Hierarchy of Goals (via Lifehacker) If You Can’t Be Trusted With Little Things, No…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 52
Dates covered: December 26, 2016 – January 1, 2017 (week 52 of 52) Career Don’t Sign That Contract! Developer Job Deal Breakers (via The Software Mentor) .NET Rocks! 1394: Software Development Apprenticeship with Will Gant and BJ Burns (via .NET Rocks!) I’m…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 51
Dates covered: December 19-25, 2016 (week 51 of 52) Career No, I Have No Side Code Projects to Show You (via The Software Mentor) Preparing to Be a Badass Next Year (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture Why Are There Still So Many…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 50
Dates covered: December 12-18, 2016 (week 50 of 52) Career The Journeyman Idealist: Architect of Programmer Paycuts (via Erik Dietrich) Journeyman Idealists Inside of Companies (via Erik Dietrich) Culture The Outwork Myth (via Software Lead Weekly) Process Annual Reviews Are Stupid (via Dawn Kuczwara)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 49
Dates covered: December 5-11, 2016 (week 49 of 52) Career Finding a Tech Leadership Job in Silicon Alley: 78 days, 43 Interviews, 18 companies, 1 job (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture .NET Rocks! 1385: Imposter Syndrome with Rob Conery (via .NET Rocks!) Coconut…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 48
Dates covered: November 28-December 4, 2016 (week 48 of 52) Career I spent 3 months applying to jobs after a coding bootcamp. Here’s what I learned. (via The Software Mentor) Code, Code, Code (via The Software Mentor) I Don’t Belong in Tech (via…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 47
Dates covered: November 21-27, 2016 (week 47 of 52) Career On Being Surpassed Gracefully (via Software Lead Weekly) Culture The code I’m still ashamed of (via The Software Mentor) Building and Motivating Engineering Teams (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication How I Share Information…