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Passive Networking and Building Trust

The type of networking where you shake hands and pass out business cards has its purpose.  However, passive networking is a far more valuable tool for building your brand.  This is where you build your network by offering help and support to others with no strings attached.  Let’s look closer at how this can work for you and how to avoid being taken advantage of. Passive Networking Is A Relationship The “friends” and “links” that you have on a social networking site are often a form of traditional networking.  You have contact information or at least a way to contact someone; you also may have a few details about that person.  However, there is no real relationship, and you might even have... Read more

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A General Approach To Testing Strategies For Developers

Testing strategies for developers are often seen as lacking import.  To be honest, developers are in their role to write code, not provide quality assurance.  However, that does not excuse the implementers from being part of testing and sharing that work. Simple Testing Strategies For Developers The strength of developers is creating solutions, not testing them.  That is not a knock on developers, we all tend to be weak at verifying our work.  Thus, effective QA work by developers requires a methodical approach that overcomes any biases we have towards our solution.  The methods that work tend to be easy to understand, implement, and repeat for any environment.  In this episode. we look at a common sense approach that will help the... Read more

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Amazon Lambda – Go Serverless

One of the hot topics in software development these days is serverless applications.  As with so many other areas, Amazon has a service for that.  The Lambda offering is a full-featured way to get started with serverless.  Better yet, they include a large number of tutorials and a repository of serverless apps to help you move from zero to guru in no time. Free Tier Eligible The lambda service includes 1,000,000 free requests per month.  Even better, this does not expire after twelve months.  All AWS subscribers get this free offering.  The pricing for Lambda does include some other details so check out this page for the latest details.  There are also pricing alert options for lambda that you might want to... Read more

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Stop and Smell The Roses

Life is a busy thing for those of us in IT and pursuing entrepreneurial goals.  Nevertheless, we still need to find some time to “live” life while still pursuing those areas.  The act of stopping to smell the roses is not only important to our quality of life, it is also a way to be more productive in the long run. Smell The Roses Equals Fun Although the original intent of this phrase was likely more about the finer things in life, in our case I think we need to know what is “fun.”  Getting through a Mario Brothers level may be a fun pursuit for you or painting a portrait or something else.  The goal we discuss in this episode... Read more