Dates covered: June 27-July 3, 2016 (week 26 of 52) Career Q&A: Successful Developer Career Strategies (via The Software Mentor) Wanted: Ninja Rockstar Code Monkey Hacker Unicorn (via Software Lead Weekly) Six Things Junior Developers Wished They Could Tell You, and How…
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Professional Development – 2016 – Week 25
Dates covered: June 20-26, 2016 (week 25 of 52) Career What It Really Means to Niche Down (via Erik Dietrich) Culture There Is No Time for Empathy (via The Software Mentor) Returning from the Threshold of Misery (via Software Lead Weekly) Tradeoffs in…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 24
Dates covered: June 13-19, 2016 (week 24 of 52) Career How to Win the Coding Interview (via The Software Mentor) Fresh Work (via The Software Mentor) Communication The Stress of Communication (via 8th Light Blog) How to Say You’re Sorry (via Software Lead Weekly)…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 23
Dates covered: June 6-12, 2016 (week 23 of 52) Marketing Apple Confidential – Steve Jobs on “Think Different” – Internal Meeting Sept. 23, 1997 (via Software Lead Weekly) Motivation Motivate People by Encouraging Them to Make Choices (via Lifehacker) Process Convexity for…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 22
Dates covered: May 30-June 5, 2016 (week 22 of 52) Culture Why the Best Companies and Developers Give Away Almost Everything They Do (via The Software Mentor) All Your Teammates Will Be Gone (via The Software Mentor) The Quiet Crisis Unfolding in…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 21
Dates covered: May 23-29, 2016 (week 21 of 52) Career How to Worry Less about Being a Bad Programmer (via Peter Welch) Communication A Primer on Giving Critical Feedback (via Software Lead Weekly) Management 31 Ways to Know Your Project Is Doomed (via…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 20
Dates covered: May 16-22, 2016 (week 20 of 52) Career Did Programming Stop Being Fun? Let’s Fix It. (via Cameron Presley) Ask HN: If you restarted your career, what would you do differently? (via Software Lead Weekly) I’m a Boring Programmer…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 19
Dates covered: May 9-15, 2016 (week 19 of 52) Career The Software Engineer’s Guide to Depreciating Your Resume (via Cameron Presley) Questions to Ask Your Interviewer (via Software Lead Weekly) Motivation Lean Back to Look Forward (via Software Lead Weekly) Psychology The Psychology…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 18
Dates covered: May 2-8, 2016 (week 18 of 52) Career Implementers, Solvers, and Finders (via The Software Mentor) Being a Developer after 40 (via The Software Mentor) Learn to Love Networking (via Audible Channels) How to Start Speaking (in Tech Conferences) (via Software…
Kalamazoo X 2016
About the conference/trip This is my second year attending the soft-skills conference, Kalamazoo X. One of the things that drew me to this conference is that it deals with things that transcend any technology and any job at a certain company: the ability…