25 Jan 2016

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 3

Dates covered: January 18-24, 2016 (week 3 of 52) Career First Signs That You Should Not Take That Job (via The Software Mentor) A Players Don’t Hire A Players – They Partner with A Players (via Erik Dietrich) Interview
18 Jan 2016

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 2

Dates covered: January 11-17, 2016 (week 2 of 52) Career On Being a Senior Engineer (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication What I Learned from Reading 429 Conference Proposals (via The Software Mentor) Culture Rethinking the org chart: Areas of
11 Jan 2016

Professional Development – 2016 – Week 1

Dates covered: January 4-10, 2016 (week 1 of 52) Career Transitioning to Meta-management (via The Software Mentor) On the unreasonable reality of “junior” developer interviews (via The Software Mentor) Developers: Here’s why you should make yourself replaceable (via Pluralsight Blog)
4 Jan 2016

Professional Development – 2015 – Week 52

Dates covered: December 28, 2015 – January 3, 2016 (week 52 of 52) Career The Best Way to Hire Developers (via Erik Dietrich) Mature Developers (via Software Lead Weekly) The Hardest, Shortest Lesson: Becoming a Manager (via Software Lead
1 Jan 2016

January 2016 RPM Mixes

For the first few weeks this month, I’ll be revisiting RPM 61 (which I launched January 2014). Check out my preview commentary about the upcoming release, RPM 69, which we’ll be launching as a team on Saturday, January
28 Dec 2015

Professional Development – 2015 – Week 51

Dates covered: December 21-27, 2015 (week 51 of 52) Career How I Interview (via The Software Mentor) Rule One of Management: First, Do No Harm (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Stop Saying ‘Sorry’ If You Want to Say ‘Thank You’ (via
27 Dec 2015

RPM 69 Review

I’m trying something different for the Q1 2016 release of RPM by combining the music and release review into a single post. This comes not only as a simplification so that I only have one post to
21 Dec 2015

Professional Development – 2015 – Week 51

Dates covered: December 14-20, 2015 (week 51 of 52) Career The Case for a Digital Notebook (via Erik Dietrich) What I Tell All New Programmers (via The Software Mentor) Do the Right Thing (via Software Lead Weekly) Your Best Employees WILL
14 Dec 2015

Professional Development – 2015 – Week 50

Dates covered: December 7-13, 2015 (week 50 of 52) Career Managers, Developers, and the In Between (via The Software Mentor) Why Hiring Is So Hard in Tech (via The Software Mentor) Onboarding Engineers: How to Tackle the First 30 Days (via
7 Dec 2015

Professional Development – 2015 – Week 49

Dates covered: November 30-December 6, 2015 (week 49 of 52) Career 5 Reasons You Should Stop Trying to Live Up to Your Potential and Start Actually Living Instead (via Pluralsight Blog) Programmer, Developer, Engineer: What’s in a Name? (via Cameron