It’s been a while since my last reader question post. It’s hard to feel too bad, though. I was combining a cross-country relocation with a two week vacation. So I suppose the internet just had to do without my wisdom for a few weeks. But I’m back in the saddle, so that changes today. For…
Every Tuesday, for the most part, I do reader question Tuesday. Because I’ve been answering reader questions for an astounding amount of time now (more than 4 years, apparently almost as long ago as I started Pluralsight), sometimes those questions build on prior posts. This is one of those. This reader question builds on a…
If you haven’t read my book, Developer Hegemony, let me briefly describe one of the main themes from it. In it, I say that the standard corporate model is horribly ill-suited for knowledge work and thus represents a bad deal for knowledge workers. Or, software developers should (and probably will) look to start an exodus…
How about that for a blog post title? Of course, I can’t claim credit for it. It’s reader question Tuesday and it was actually the reader who phased it this way. Here’s the question: I made a mistake. Took on some side work that I thought would be a simple way to make money but it…
This week’s reader question Tuesday is a look at how to get a programming job without a degree. It’s probably a good one for me to hold forth on. In my book, Developer Hegemony, I argue that, in spite of my own two CS degrees, I probably wouldn’t recommend that course of action to prospective…
