Years ago, I published a post called How to Keep Your Best Programmers. In it, I discussed what drives programmers out of jobs and what keeps them happy. This discussion touched heavily on the concepts of mastery, autonomy, and purpose as important motivators for knowledge workers. If you want to keep skilled programmers, you can’t…
Editorial note: I originally wrote this post for the Monitis blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, have a look at some of the other authors for their blog. I remember something pretty random about my first job. In my cubicle, I had a large set of metal…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the SubMain blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, take a look around at some of the other posts and at their offerings. Today, I’d like to offer a somewhat lighthearted treatment to a serious topic. I generally find that…
I’ve had an item on DaedTech’s Trello board for a good, long time now. Switch over to using SSL. And, fear not those of you who enjoy this blog! You can now browse confidently, without worrying that some impostor is feeding you misinformation about expert beginners, journeyman idealists, and other random neologisms that come out of…
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Monitis blog. You can check out the original here, at their site. While you’re there, take a look at Monitis’s offering for all things related to website and networking monitoring. If you had to pick a unifying technology to bring all developers together, then you could…
