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…
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All The Small Things
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
We Do Not Know You
I have encountered the phrase “We Do Not Know You” a few times during the job hunting process. Recently I interviewed with a company that used this phrase. I threw everything at them including LinkedIn Recommendations, Contacts, Resume, Cover Letter,…
Posted in Employment Search, entrepreneurship, Ideas, interview, Job Search, Personal Thoughts, Success Tagged with: contract work, extra money, job hunting, search strategy
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…
IT Professional and Communication Skills
It is a well-known fact that Information Technology professionals are often lacking skills in the communication department. Almost every job posting lately had stated you must have good Oral and Written communication skills. This was not me; at least until…
More Than Meets The Eye
There is more than meets the eye with me. On my resume it is majority Microsoft skills. Microsoft is used more than open source because that is what my work and customers demand from me. Can I do more? Yes!…
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Should Children be Taught Cursive Writing
Cursive writing is the linking of hand-written characters. It is the penmanship that was taught to us in school after we learned to print. Some will argue that it is an old irrelevant craft due to the modern us of…
