Your manager might be holding back your career. Here are the warning signs.
May 08, 2022Warning signs your manager or boss is holding you back in your career as a software developer.
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TFF Part 3: I have data I need to show. But how?
January 31, 2022How to succeed by thinking like a senior software developer. Examining data presentation. Frontends, GUIs, etc.
Job Titles Are For Companies, Not For You
January 30, 2022If you pin your self-worth to your job title, then what are you worth outside your job? What happens when you lose your job?
TFF Part 2: I have data. I need to put it somewhere. But where?
January 28, 2022How to succeed by thinking like a senior software developer. Examining data storage. Persistence, in-memory caches, etc.
TFF Part 1: Data gathering: how hard can it be?
January 17, 2022How to succeed by thinking like a senior software developer. Examining data extraction, data transformation, and data loading.
What does a senior software developer think about and why does it matter?
January 10, 2022How to succeed by thinking as a software system designer. Exploring day-to-day decision-making by senior software developers for software architectures and processes.
Is Envy Always Bad?
January 09, 2022Finding success by leveraging the psychology of envy...but probably not in the way you're thinking.
The Fast Way to Delete Hidden Bookmarks in MS Word
October 10, 2021Smashwords is a book self-publishing platform for authors. Use a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) script to efficiently remove hidden bookmarks from Microsoft Word.
Companies spend little time developing its developers…and we’re paying for it.
October 06, 2021Companies can’t find programmers and programmers can’t find jobs. This is worsened by companies that won’t invest in talent within.
IS There a Speed-Quality Trade-off in Software Development?
June 22, 2021Why the speed-accuracy trade-off doesn't apply to software development where technical debt causes a decrease in quality to reduce speed. Quality takes precedence, as in Continuous Delivery.