Beyond the Dead Sea: When Good Software Groups Go Bad
I recently posted what turned out to be a pretty popular post called "How to Keep Your Best Programmers," in which I described what most skilled programmers tend to want in a job and why they leave if they don't get it.
Today, I'd like to...
Last year, I made a retrospective post, and I titled it "A Blog Grows Up: DaedTech Year in Review for 2012." I think I did this because a lot of other bloggers seemed to do it. And one ofthe big themes of last year's post was that I was becoming a real, non-faking-it blogger. This year, I'm making...
Setting the Stage
Oh, how naive I was even 12 months ago (and I have no doubt 12 months from now I'll be saying the same thing). But before I get to that, I'll travel back in time a little further.
The year was 2010 and I had just purchased the domain name daedtech.com along with a hosting...
Expert Beginner Recap
In my last post I introduced the term "Expert Beginner" to describe someone who has capped out in their learning at some sort of local maximum, convinced that the local is global. Expert Beginners are developers who do not understand enough ofthe big picture to understand...
I am Erik Dietrich, founder of DaedTech. I’m a former programmer, architect, and IT management consultant, and current founder and CEO of Hit Subscribe.
