Category: self-improvement

How To Be Awesome

Being awesome is not the same as being perfect.  Being perfect is not possible, so you may as well shake that notion out of your head.  Being awesome is being the best you can be.  It is bringing everything you

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Effective Listening

A skill that seems to be lacking in a lot of people is effective listening.  Effective listening is not 100% listening to others, but it is also the art of listening, asking questions and evaluating what you are hearing.  Lately

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A Call To Senior Developers – Rise Up

Every year is there is an influx of newly trained developers from our local colleges.  They have paid good money to become book smart and if they are lucky maybe some practical from their co-ops.   They enter the work force with

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Code Simplified

Working with junior developers through out my years, I have seen some funky and fun ways of coding.  The three styles I have seen the most are the following.    I have come up with BEFORE and AFTER examples.  Now

Posted in Better Coding, Developer, self-improvement