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📅 March 26, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 3 minutes read

Increase Your Value Through Business Knowledge

We have focused a lot on the technical aspects of an IT career. However, the business (or businesses) you work in is a significant factor in your journey to a better developer. Let me…

📅 March 26, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

Developing Automation – Avoiding The Brute-Force Solution

We can code for a quick solution, or we can focus on developing automation for the same. There are times when we stumble across the latter while concentrating on the former. However, it is…

📅 March 23, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

Fun With Puzzles and Problem-Solving

It may seem odd, but one of the great things to embrace in life is puzzles. Whether you prefer crosswords, sudoku or any of the other puzzles out there, they can all provide more…

📅 March 21, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

Learn From Others (Before Becoming an Entrepreneur)

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 set of…

📅 March 19, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 3 minutes read

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 advantage of…

📅 March 19, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

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 way forward…

📅 March 16, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

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 adult. However,…

📅 March 14, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

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 are faced…

📅 March 12, 2018 Podcast ⏱ 2 minutes read

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 generation is…

📅 March 12, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 3 minutes read

Revisit Problems To Provide Better Solutions

One of the most frustrating barriers to improvement is the idea that “we always did it this way.” The idea that once a problem is solved, there is no better solution has been proven…