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📅 April 8, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Enhancing Your Resume With Development Tools

A big part of advancing your career includes enhancing your resume. There will be new skills you pick up along the way, and it helps to let others know about them. This consists of…

📅 April 5, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Researching New Tools and Technologies

Learning for our personal purposes is not the limit of what IT workers are asked to do. There are also situations where we need to learn the latest tools or technology advances. Unfortunately, these…

📅 April 3, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Career Advancement Through Training and Conferences

There are many ways to add to our skills and advance our career. While on-the-job learning is essential, formal learning situations can move the ball forward at a faster pace. Training and conferences fit…

📅 April 2, 2019 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 3 minutes read

Embracing and Making the Most of the Agile Process

There is a lot that has been written about the Agile process. Thus, it has been a hot topic that all the cool kids are discussing for several years. While there is nothing wrong…

📅 April 1, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Learning New Tech Skills On The Job

An IT career demands that we include learning new tech skills as part of our regular routine. This requirement often leads to a lot of time spent on career development. However, there are ways…

📅 March 29, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Playing Your Professional Role as An Employee or Consultant – Career Intangibles

We all have seen situations in our career where we are asked to play a role. The role is sometimes a broader one than we are used to. However, we can also be asked…

📅 March 27, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Best Practices For Travel and Related Expenses

A side hustle does not preclude travel. Thus, sooner or later you will face the question of how to handle travel and related expenses. You might not have to wait. Your employer may send…

📅 March 26, 2019 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

Performance Tuning Tips and Tricks for Any Code

One of the recurring tasks I see inside projects is performance tuning. The focus is on a database or queries at times but more often it is a code cleanup. We can dig into…

📅 March 25, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Consulting Intangibles – Building Relationships

An excellent measure of long-term success is how much your customers like you. Thus, building relationships are a critical part of your job. You may have the skills to be able to stay busy…

📅 March 22, 2019 Lessons Learned From Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Explicit and Implicit Project Deliverables

We have touched on the idea that there are explicit and implicit project deliverables in most cases. These may be due to our customer simplifying a solution or general prerequisites and best practices. Some common…