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Author: Rob Broadhead
Rob is a founder of, and frequent contributor to, Develpreneur. This includes the Building Better Developers podcast. He is also a lifetime learner as a developer, designer, and manager of software solutions. Rob is the founder of RB Consulting and has managed to author a book about his family experiences and a few about becoming a better developer.
In his free time, he stays busy raising five children (although they have grown into adults). When he has a chance to breathe, he is on the ice playing hockey to relax or working on his ballroom dance skills.
One of the attributes of a successful entrepreneur is a sense for what not to do. They still take risks, but the successful ones are either very lucky or have a good…
Improve Technical Skills Through Practice
All skills have a combination of natural talent, effort, and experience. Technical skills are no different. You can improve professional skills by practicing them in your daily responsibilities. Yes, you should take…
Improve Productivity – Pick Up Your Head And Plan
How often have you been too busy to consider ways to improve productivity? Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon problem. We can easily get buried in day-to-day tasks and details. However, our best…
Buying Toys and Enjoying Life
Once we become adults we often relegate playing as something that died along with our childhood. This can often be a mistake. A trip for buying toys may look very different as an…
Build Or Buy – Deciding What Is Right For You
In a simple way of looking at solutions, the decision comes down to build or buy. We run into this a lot in planning and running a business. Time after time we…
Code Generation Or Manual Coding as a Learning Tool
It is hard to imagine how different software development was even a few decades ago. We used to have to write our applications manually. Heck, even copy and paste was complicated. Luckily, code…