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

The Short Resume – Getting a Job With Minimal Experience

We all have started our professional life with that most challenging obstacle in front of us, experience. I think all of us have experienced the challenge of getting experience when every job seems to…

📅 March 11, 2020 Mastering Your Career ⏱ 2 minutes read

Career Improvement – From Better Developer To Better Career

We kick off the new season on career improvement with an episode to set the table. We take a look at what we will cover and how our attitude can drive success. Our path…

📅 March 9, 2020 Special Topics ⏱ 3 minutes read

Milestones An Excellent Tool For Marking and Driving Progress

As we reach a milestone episode number (350), it is a good time for us to look closer at milestones. These project management tools may appear to be tags or labels along our path. …

📅 March 6, 2020 Special Topics ⏱ 3 minutes read

Best Practice Mistakes – Process Drift

We all make mistakes. Even our best intentions can lead to errors. Thus, we can make best practice mistakes. While this may seem like an impossible situation, you will soon see that it is…

📅 March 6, 2020 Special Topics ⏱ 3 minutes read

Schedule Adjustments – When To Change Course

We spend a lot of time talking about planning and setting schedules. This activity is a necessary process. However, we should learn from our past and adapt our schedule when possible. There is no…

📅 March 5, 2020 Integrate Testing Into Your Development Flow ⏱ 3 minutes read

Reporting In TestNG: How To Write Custom Loggers And Reporters

Welcome to the next episode in our new series “Integrating testing into your development flow”. Today we are going to be looking at “Reporting In TestNG: How To Write Custom Loggers And Reporters”. In…

📅 March 2, 2020 Special Topics ⏱ 2 minutes read

Best Practice Urban Legends – Not Quite the Best

Urban legends cover a broad range of topics and often have a feel of being correct, even when they are not. This phenomenon is not restricted to saying “Beetle Juice” three times. There are…

📅 February 28, 2020 Special Topics ⏱ 2 minutes read

The Cost of The Right Decision – Is It Worth It?

Software developers and designers are often asked for a recommendation to approach a solution. The implication is that we know the right decision. We often join in on this assumption and will debate or…

📅 February 27, 2020 Integrate Testing Into Your Development Flow ⏱ 2 minutes read

TestNG Testing Types: A Comprehensive Look Into How To Use Them

Welcome to the next episode in our new series “Integrating testing into your development flow”. Today we are going to be looking at “TestNG Testing Types: A Comprehensive Look Into How To Use Them”.…

📅 February 26, 2020 Software Architecture From Scratch ⏱ 3 minutes read

Software Architecture Deliverables – Provide The Story

It is time to end another season. At this point, we need to revisit the idea of software architecture deliverables. In particular, we should spend some time thinking about how we communicate our architecture.…