Rest assured, there is a list of tricks that you can use in meetings later in this post. But, before you get to the buzzfeed portion, please indulge me for a few paragraphs that will help determine whether you’re the sort of person that really wants to take this advice. A while back, I took…
It wasn’t pretty. There I stood, knuckles scraped raw, a black eye, and a nose that would probably never look quite the same way again. But you should have seen the other guy. I had emerged, victorious, my site finally behaving the way I wanted, and CSS lay quivering on the ground, a shattered mass of…
On the heels of the product kata post, I’m going to double down on the “ship something for money” advice. There’s no time to lose. Valuable, profitable seconds of your life are ticking by, and you’re missing out. Surely you’re aware of the concept of compound interest? In case you’re not, suffice it to say…
When I was a kid, I spent a bunch of years doing karate. As best I can recall, there were three main types of activities around which we’d focus: kihon, kata, and kumite. I listed these roughly in order of sophistication. Kihon translates to something like “basics” and it involved executing the same punches, blocks,…
This is another post that I originally wrote for the NDepend blog. If you haven’t yet, go check out the NDepend blog and sign up for the RSS feed. It’s relatively new, but we’ll have a lot of good content there for you. If you’re a software developer, particularly of the newly minted variety, the…
