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Creating and Pursuing Your Career Roadmap

Just like software, your professional development will go better with a solid plan.  In this episode, we look at how to create a career roadmap and advance along the path.  Every individual has their likes, desires, and needs for their professional development.  We start with general technologies and platforms then proceed to look at some specifics and keeping your roadmap in mind. Creating the Career Roadmap The key to a good career roadmap is to cover areas of development in both general and specific ways.  You need to have precise enough goals to plan and measure our progress.  On the other hand, we need to be able to adjust our plan as technology advances.  We might even have to add... Read more

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Simplify Your Way To Happiness

Life is busy and hectic.  Our modern lives include not only a potentially overwhelming amount of responsibilities but copious amounts of “stuff.”  Thus, sometimes the burden of daily life causes stress and extra work.  An excellent answer to this struggle is to simplify things wherever possible.  When you have less to worry about there will be more free time and focus becomes almost automatic. Digital Simplification The flurry of apps, devices, and content subscriptions available to us make it easy to suffer from an overwhelming amount of little bills to manage.  These tend to go hand-in-hand with landing us on mailing lists for electronic and snail mail.  It is also easy to have overlapping subscriptions.  These things may only take a few minutes... Read more

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Mastering The Interview From Either Side of The Table

The interview process is a part of every facet of a business.  This is no less a part of IT and technology-related jobs.  In fact, the mobility of technology jobs and prevalence of short-term or part-time positions make mastering the interview critical for your career.  In this episode, we cover some great ways to approach an interview.  These will help whether you are looking for a new team member or a new position. An Interview is Selling IT workers rarely consider themselves good at sales of any type.  However, the key to a good interview on either side of the table is to properly sell your position.  As an interviewer, you are selling that the job and company are an excellent... Read more

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Using a Document Repository To Become a Better Developer

There are many things you can use to cover the need for a document repository for a developer.  It can be a wiki site, a note tracking application, or a cloud storage location for actual documents.  I find use and need for each of these.  There is a need for being able to see what you need quickly, so a balance needs to be found for the types of information being stored and the number of applications in use.  I think one or two is good early on and you might grow to more of these sort of tools as your career progresses. Notes In starting out, an excellent place to store ideas that is easily searchable or at least indexable... Read more

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Modern Programming Language Types – An Overview

In this episode, we continue our overview of development languages with a focus on the types that exist.  We looked at some of the core concepts in the first part of this series.  The similarities (think dialects) among languages were also highlighted.  At this point, we look at some specific ones and how there are programming language types that make some better than others for the tasks at hand. General Programming Language Types We start with the best known and most useful coding languages.  These have some strengths that may not be as strong as specialized ones.  However, they have limited weaknesses.  This combination makes these excellent choices for your first ones to master.  A general programming language not only... Read more