Happy New Year! I hope 2022 is all that much better than 2021. Taking Time to Grow is not something that comes easily or naturally. So many of us will fill our days with meetings, phone calls and other essential…
Category: Mentor
Taking Time to Grow
Posted in Mentor, Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts, Professional Development, Success Tagged with: Book, Focus, Journal, Microsoft, Personal Growth, Time
Podcasts I Follow
These are the Podcasts I follow and listen to most often. They range from business, design and general interests. They are not ranked in an particular order, but my favourite is James Altucher and Jordan Harbinger. I would challenge everyone…
Personal Branding
I am not a marketing person, but I do believe in personal branding. How I display myself professionally in my networks is who I am. My personal branding is consistent throughout everything I do so that people have something to…
The Two Sides to Job Hunting
I have had students ask me about how to get hired or who is hiring. I have also had employers ask me how to find developers when they have had a tough time hiring quality employees. These are tough questions…
Posted in Bosses, Developer, Employment Search, How To, interview, job interview, Job Search, Jobs, Mentor, Team Tagged with: job seeking, jobs
Be Kind to Those You Meet
You never know when you meet someone what they will be to you in your life. You may meet them in a service club, be a customer of yours, be a friend or an in-law. You just never know when…
Importance of Code Refactoring
By continuously improving the design of code, we make it easier and easier to work with. This is in sharp contrast to what typically happens: little refactoring and a great deal of attention paid to expediently adding new features. If…
Posted in Better Coding, Developer, evaluation, Ideas, Mentor, self-improvement, Team, Team Lead, Team Manager
How a Senior can Help a Junior Developer
Senior developers have a responsibility to help those who are new to the profession. We are the one group of people that the junior developer can turn to after college. Essentially the college gave the new developer 2 years…
