A while back now I had a friendly debate with a colleague. It began innocently in a pub on a Friday night and it was Web Forms vrs MVC in the DotNet framework. I was anti-MVC for various reasons and…
Category: Personal Learning and Growth
My Story
Here is my story as a developer. I started out playing on Commodore 64 in elementary school. I would have to give a lot of credit to the Librarian at Valleyview Public School. He had allowed me to work with…
Sometimes You Just Need a Smile
Sometimes you just need a smile. Like most, I have good, bad and terrible days, but I found something that makes me smile. Like a lot of developers, I have a few vendor stickers on my equipment. My kids noticed…
Posted in Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts
All The Small Things
All the small things are often forgotten. In software development we are taught to take a large problem and break it down to its smallest component. Often as software developer we can make a daunting task less complicated by following…
Posted in Balanced Life, Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts Tagged with: Living, Opinion
Development Team Relationships
This week I pushed out some old blogs outlining the relationships between senior and more junior developers. I did this because I thought it was very important to listen to each other. We can all learn from old and new…
Enhance Your Technology Career By Learning To Speak
Have you ever had a customer, co-worker or manager look at you as if you had two heads? When an IT Professional, speaks it is very important that who we speak to understands what we are saying. You cannot sell…
Posted in Employment Search, Goals, How To, Ideas, interview, IT, job interview, Job Search, Jobs, Leadership, Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts, Professional Development, self-improvement, Success, Team, Technology Tagged with: Career, Communication, Speaking
Clean Your Desk and Your Office To Stay Focused
A Clean Desk Is a Clear Mind. How can you be productive with a messy desk? Than answer is you cannot! A messy desk is a major distraction to you. A messy room is even more of a distraction. It…
Posted in How To, Ideas, Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts Tagged with: Achieving Goals, Being Great, Change, Experience, Professional Development, Tips
Getting Out Of My Comfort Zone
I have often lived in my own little bubble as most technology-geek-type people do. I hardly stepped out, stretched myself and joined the world outside. In the last little while I have had the opportunity to expand my world and…
What I Have Learned
I graduated college in 1996. This was a great year for me. I moved home where I was fed and loved by my family. I worked for a small software company doing Visual Cobol who went bust. I was…
