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📅 May 13, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Surge Effort and Just In Time Work

The steady effort we put in to become a better developer can be redirected when needed. This surge effort can provide us the extra steam we need to get a project done. Likewise, it…

📅 May 12, 2020 Integrate Testing Into Your Development Flow ⏱ 3 minutes read

Selenium In TestNG: Taking Your Web Tests To The Next Level

Welcome to the next episode in our new series “Integrating testing into your development flow”. Today we are going to be looking at “Selenium In TestNG: Taking Your Web Tests To The Next Level…

📅 May 11, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Giving Back And Building a Brand

We have often looked at ways to provide content as part of a side-hustle. Thus, we will skip that topic this time around. Instead, let’s look at giving back and providing things for free. …

📅 May 8, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Mastering Skills In Under Ten Thousand Hours

There is a well-known book that describes mastery of skills as needing ten thousand hours. The ideas put forth in the book have many arguments for and against, but that is for another time. …

📅 May 6, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Mixing Side-hustle Tasks With Your Daily Job – Overlap Benefits

Time is arguably our most valuable resource. We can not buy extra time. We can only spend it as wisely as possible. That means we need to be mindful of the cost of our…

📅 May 4, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Prior Work As a Starting Point For Higher Quality

Our daily work to get better is not without positive side-effects. One of the most powerful of these is the ability for us to build on prior work. These tools can be a huge…

📅 May 1, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 2 minutes read

Self-Confidence That Comes From Incremental Improvement

A big part of a good interview is self-confidence. Those that answer questions directly and confidently are more likely to impress than those that waver or seem unsure of themselves. While interpersonal skills are…

📅 April 29, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Stories Instead of Buzzwords – Showing What You Know

There are numerous guides and articles on how to interview. They all provide some great suggestions. However, I rarely see an essential recommendation for technical interviews. Some technical interviews require dry and detailed answers. …

📅 April 27, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

I Can Find That Out,Saying I Do Not Know Yet

We are asked questions every day. Also, part of the expectation of our job is that we will have an answer. However, we do not have to answer immediately. It is acceptable to say…

📅 April 24, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 3 minutes read

Accepting or Rejecting Job Offers

Part of advancing our career includes accepting or rejecting job offers. It may come as a surprise to you that we do have a choice. We might even reject an offer without having another…