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📅 July 30, 2018 AWS Tour ⏱ 2 minutes read

Amazon Elastic BeanStalk – Automate deployments and scaling

The power of using Amazon AWS for your IT needs is incredible. There are dozens of services that are within reach of those that have even the smallest budget. Of course, all this power…

📅 July 30, 2018 Create a Small Product ⏱ 2 minutes read

General Case Problem-Solving – Implementation Steps

In the prior episode, we started out our coding of a solution for a specific case. Now we move on to the general case problem-solving code. Some of this work may have been completed…

📅 July 27, 2018 Create a Small Product ⏱ 2 minutes read

Solving The Problem For a Simple Case – Implementation Steps

We built a foundation for our application in the last episode. Now, we move into solving the problem that our customers will pay for. This step is just putting our plan on the computer and…

📅 July 25, 2018 Get Started With Online Consulting ⏱ 3 minutes read

Setting Your Development Pricing

A challenge that we all face in our service offering is setting the development pricing. We know what our salary is and what we would like to earn. However, we also want to be fair…

📅 July 24, 2018 General ⏱ 2 minutes read

Passive Income Through Micro-Investing

We often discuss passive income from our side hustle projects such as services and product creation. A quick and easy way to start on this path is through micro-investing. That is the method of…

📅 July 23, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 4 minutes read

Improving Development Skills By Learning From a Team

They say that no man is an island. This statement is as true in software development as it is anywhere else. Learning from a team is an integral part of becoming better as developers. …

📅 July 23, 2018 Create a Small Product ⏱ 3 minutes read

Implementation First Steps – Creating Your Product

In this episode, we get started on the implementation phase of our software product. We have a reasonably robust design documented from the tasks of the prior episodes. Thus, this should be an easy and…

📅 July 20, 2018 Create a Small Product ⏱ 3 minutes read

Creating Our Test Scripts and Planning for Quality

Testing is an integral part of software development. It is critical for producing quality and an essential habit to develop early in your career. We will look at building test considerations into our product…

📅 July 18, 2018 Get Started With Online Consulting ⏱ 4 minutes read

Building Your Service Offering and Resume

One of the first steps once we decide to do consulting as a side-hustle is to define our service offering. We have the option to be a general consultant and do at large coding…

📅 July 17, 2018 Become a Better Developer ⏱ 2 minutes read

Software Estimation: Improving Productivity, Quality, and Expectations

There is a saying that what gets measured gets improved. That goes for software development. Unfortunately, it is a task that is easier said than done. This presentation looks at some ways to make…