Dates covered: March 9-15, 2015 (week 11 of 52) Career My 2014 in Review: Or How I Beat Impostor Syndrome (via Phillip Andreason) “The Best Job Description for an Engineer Ever Written” (via Rich Rogers) Build to Learn: Why You Should Make Things…
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Kalamazoo X 2015
About the conference/trip This year I was thrilled to finally attend 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…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 10
Dates covered: March 2-8, 2015 (week 10 of 52) Career The Surprising Benefits (and Pitfalls) of Being a “Jack of All Trades” (via Lifehacker) Worry About Keeping Your Next Job, Not Your Current One (via Lifehacker) How to Answer “Why Do You…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 12
Dates covered: March 16-23, 2015 (week 12 of 52) Career To fight or not to fight: how to know when to go to battle for an idea (and how to win) (via Rich Rogers) The Idea Person (via Software Lead Weekly) The…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 9
Dates covered: February 23-March 1, 2015 (week 9 of 52) Career How to Have a Better Career in Software (via Pluralsight Blog, recommended by Cameron Presley) Team of Teams: The Big SCRUM Series (via David Starr) Nobody Hates Software More Than…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 8
Dates covered: February 16-22, 2015 (week 8 of 52) Career On Being a Senior Engineer (via Rich Rogers) Write A Resignation Letter, But Don’t Deliver It (via Lifehacker) Technical Excellence and Professional Process (via David Starr) The Joel Test for Programmers…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 7
Dates covered: February 9-15, 2015 (week 7 of 52) Career The Impact Trap: How We End up Settling (via Lifehacker) Aggregation of Indignities (via Eric Dietrich) Why Learning to Code Is So Damn Hard (via Lifehacker) What Doesn’t Seem Like Work? (via Software…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 6
Dates covered: February 2-8, 2015 (week 6 of 52) Career Common Career Wisdom That Isn’t Completely True (via Lifehacker) The Burdens of Expertise (via Scott Berkun) Job Hopping Might Hurt Your Job Search More Than Unemployment or Age (via Lifehacker) Programmer IS a…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 5
Dates covered: January 26-February 1, 2015 (week 5 of 52) Career Career Death by Management (via Elisabeth Hendrickson) What to Do When You’re Stuck in a Death March (via Pluralsight Blog) Being the Best (via Phillip Andreason) How Safe Is Your…
Professional Development – 2015 – Week 4
Dates covered: January 19-25, 2015 (week 4 of 52) Career Hone Your Craft, Raise Your Hand (via Jim Holmes) Open Source: The Whys and Hows (via Phillip Andreason) Letters to Junior Developers (via Cameron Presley) What I Wish I Knew When I…