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…
Category: self-improvement
7 Soft Skills That Senior Developers Should Have
Developers often ask what they need to do to make it to the level of a senior developer. They can gain all the programming skills in all the popular and new software frameworks, but they will not be anything more…
A Quest to Learn AngularJS
I recently got excited about AngularJS. I took a pretty good course through CodeSchool for which you can find a link off of the AngularJS home page. Since then I had been playing with and scouting out AngularJS ideas that…
Achieving Order in Chaos
Trying to streamline things at work and make it so we are producing higher quality code I have learned a few things. Mind you I have only been in my new position for a few weeks, but already I along…
Posted in Beginning New Management Position, Professional Development, Project Manager, self-improvement, Team, Team Lead, Team Manager Tagged with: Trello
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
Keeping a Cool Head
Recent events at work caused 3 days of fire fighting to keep systems going. It was a lot of work and was not easy. Stress levels were at an all-time high. While showing the rest of the staff that I…
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…
Fantastic Speech! When You Want to be Successful as Bad as You Want to Breath…
Fantastic Speech! When You Want to be Successful as Bad as You Want to Breath….
New Year – Fresh Start
2012 is a new year and for many, a fresh start. I see 2012 as an opportunity to do something new, start fresh on other items and a chance to turn a new leaf. Often, your colleagues, bosses and…
Posted in Goals, Personal Learning and Growth, Professional Development, Reflection, self-improvement Tagged with: 2012, Achieving Goals, Change, New Years
