Monday night at London Western Toastmasters, I gave a speech about getting the momentum going. It was geared to getting used to speaking, getting in front of the club and practicing. I had equated it to driving a 5 speed…
Category: self-improvement
Driving to Your Goals
Posted in #ldnont, How To, Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts, Professional Development, self-improvement Tagged with: Achieving Goals, Toastmasters
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
Can Senior Developers Learn From Junior Developers
I relate this back to when you are listening to grandparents tell story after story. Somewhere in those stories you learn from their history. Now when they ask about you, they learn more modern things. Like the time I…
Posted in Developer, self-improvement
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…
Are You Everything That You Can Be
Upon personal reflection, I realized that I could be more. I have been putting my time and energy into the wrong things. Watching TV, internet surfing and generally mucking around. This weekend I spent hanging out with my one year…
Posted in Reflection, self-improvement
What are you bringing to your team
Every team has a slacker. Your team can be at work, on the rink, ball diamond, or your marriage. Are you the slacker? Why are you the slacker? Are you listening to people other than yourself? Everyone has the…
Who Is Andrew Pallant
I was recently asked the question “Who Is Andrew Pallant?“. Although I am Andrew Pallant; I find this question very complex and complicated to answer. One must reflect ever so often to rediscover who you are and what…
Matt Cutts – Try something new for 30 days
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Mine Mine Mine
In any work environment you here things like “Don’t step on my toes”, “Do not touch my desk or my projects”. Walls are formed to protect what they believe is their own best interest; protecting their job in essence. Is this…
Posted in Developer, self-improvement
