Few things seem as institutional to the programming world as what I call the experience tuple. A company needs to hire someone to automate something, so, naturally, it asks the software development group to make alphabet soup for dice.com. “We need someone with (C#, XML, HTML, JS, ASP, MVC, REST, Angular, AJAX) with (React, MSTest,…
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, download a trial of CodeIt.Right. More years ago than I’d care to admit, I took a software engineering course as part of my graduate CS program. At the time, I worked…
I just dug up a tweet I made about 6 years ago. I did this because I remembered saying it, and because it perfectly illustrates a distinction I’m going to make today. Specifically, I’ll talk about the distinction between technical hobbies and side hustle. And, I’ll then advocate for side hustle. But first, the tweet….
“Missionaries and mercenaries” has a pretty intriguing ring to it, huh? I wish I could claim credit for it, but I heard about it on this podcast with Ribbonfarm creator Venkat Rao. Apparently, entrepreneurs use this pithy phrase to make a distinction among themselves. I’ll explain in more detail shortly. First, however, I’d like to…
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, have a look around at some of the other posts and sign up for the feed. During my younger days, I worked for a company that made a habit of strategic…
